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The official Flutter team blog on Medium announces releases and covers Flutter's design, including web and Raspberry Pi support.
What HN saysHN links it for Flutter announcements, mainly Hummingbird, the web port. One commenter says it diverges from the web platform, and a Flutter lead replies about Linux.
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- 1Hummingbird: Building Flutter for the Web9 people · 9 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 2Flutter on Raspberry Pi (mostly) from scratch3 people · 10 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 3(2017) Why Flutter doesn’t use OEM widgets3 people · 6 points · first shared 2018 · 2 comments on HN
- 4Bringing Flutter to the Web3 people · 5 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 5Flutter is now beta2 people · 26 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 6What’s New in Flutter Beta 3?2 people · 15 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 7Announcing Flutter beta 22 people · 11 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 8Announcing Flutter Release Preview 11 people · 180 points · first shared 2018 · 82 comments on HN
- 9Out of Depth with Flutter1 people · 4 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 10Announcing Flutter Release Preview 11 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 11Beautiful, animated charts for Flutter1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 12What We’ve Learned from the July 2018 Flutter User Survey1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 13Flutter Create is live with over $10k in prizes1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 14Flutter: Don’t Fear the Garbage Collector1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 153D Perspective in Flutter1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
rkangel · 2019-01-28
What you describe is similar to what the flutter developers
are trying to achieve with their web port 'Hummingbird'. Flutter is currently almost entirely aimed at mobile apps, but it would be wonderful to be able to share UI code between apps and web frontend, with a consistent layout model.
This post is a good read:
https://medium.com/flutter-io/hummingbird-building-flutter-for-the-web…
yesimahuman · 2019-05-07
Flutter for Web is heavily reminiscent of Famous with its custom layout system and off-DOM rendering (or guessing DOM rendering support w/ CSS transforms of divs). To see, just view-source on the NYT demo.
Quite divergent from the web platform in my opinion. The fact that they have to re-implement copy and paste (and, accessibility features!) further adds to that: https://medium.com/flutter-io/bringing-flutter-to-the-web-904de05f0df0
Quite bizarre compared to the Chrome team "Use the Platform" messaging.
Hixie · 2019-05-07
(I'm the Flutter TL.)
As a target platform or as a development platform?
We don't support targeting Linux out of the box today, but we support Linux as a first-class development platform (it's what I use). That said, we do work on Linux, and if you're willing to do a bit of work, you can use it to write Linux apps. If you want to target X11, you'll need something like https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding whereas if you want to target the hardware directly, you can do something like https://medium.com/flutter-io/flutter-on-raspberry-pi-mostly-from-scra… .
pytonslange · 2019-05-06
The work to bring flutter to the web is well underway. See https://medium.com/flutter-io/hummingbird-building-flutter-for-the-web…
Maybe Google IO will bring more news.
sudhirj · 2019-04-25
It's been announced, but don't think it's ready yet. https://medium.com/flutter-io/hummingbird-building-flutter-for-the-web…
markdog12 · 2019-04-25
They're working on it: https://medium.com/flutter-io/hummingbird-building-flutter-for-the-web…
gman83 · 2019-03-04
Flutter is also aiming to target the web:
https://medium.com/flutter-io/hummingbird-building-flutter-for-the-web…
hajile · 2019-01-05
Bigger difference than that. Flutter has you writing in high-level components that become native draw calls using Skia. There's an in-progress back-end that outputs to HTML, Canvas, and CSS paint instead of Skia. You aren't going to be using npm much at all.
https://medium.com/flutter-io/hummingbird-building-flutter-for-the-web…
If you are using Dart without flutter (eg, overReact), then you're going to use npm a bit more (though dart has better builtin libs which helps a bit on that front). There is a generator that uses typescript definition files to generate dart interopt files.
https://github.com/dart-lang/js_facade_gen
forgot-my-pw · 2018-12-04
There's Flutter desktop: https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
And web: https://medium.com/flutter-io/hummingbird-building-flutter-for-the-web…
indy · 2018-07-02
Hamilton was built with flutter.
https://medium.com/flutter-io/video-hamilton-app-built-in-3-months-wit…
quangio · 2018-06-03
I don't think using non-OEM widgets is a bad thing because it's not like Electron; Flutter uses Skia to render widgets, and it's fast. There is an article https://medium.com/flutter-io/why-flutter-doesnt-use-oem-widgets-94746…
wstrange · 2018-05-07
More information: https://medium.com/flutter-io/flutter-beta-3-7d88125245dc
suprfnk · 2018-03-07
Well, Flutter has been at beta 1 for just over a week now.
https://medium.com/flutter-io/announcing-flutter-beta-1-build-beautifu…
I can imagine they haven't had the time to flesh out docs yet.