This week in Flutter #72: GitHub’s supply chain security supports Dart

A couple of days ago, GitHub announced that supply chain security now supports Dart. This means that GitHub can now provide reports about vulnerabilities in the dependencies you use in your Flutter apps.

Earlier this year, Dart support was added to dependabot and it was just a matter of time until the other GitHub supply chain security services would support it as well.

Michael Thomsen also wrote an article about the Dart partnership with GitHub where you can read more about what you can really do with supply chain security.

Are you going to include it in your workflow?

- Michele Volpato

Development 🧑‍💻

Simulation vs. real device testing for Flutter apps

When is better to use a real device compared to a simulator or an emulator for testing your Flutter app? How do you set up both for Flutter testing? Attila Vago has the answers to these questions in this article.

Dart Package Tutorial – Getting Started

An article to create and implement a Dart package from scratch. Everything you need to know, from instantiating the project to using test-driven development. From generating documentation to publishing it. Written by Agustinus Theodorus.

Records Feature Specification

The records proposal by Bob Nystrom has been approved. This means that, someday, it will be available in Dart. Nice!

How to build a Chrome extension with Flutter Web

Did you know you can write Chrome extensions using Flutter? Hrishikesh Pathak teaches you how.

Others 🤷‍♂️

🔗 Flutter’s future after Stadia’s shutdown

Could Google shut Flutter down as they did with Stadia? Read this analysis on the topic by David Serrano Canales.

🔗 Actions (Widget of the Week)

Craig Labenz puts an end to the keyboard shortcuts system series of Widget of the Week with Actions.

🔗 Equality in Dart | Decoding Flutter

Craig Labenz, again, takes you on a journey into how equality works in Dart. If you are learning the basics of Dart this is a must-watch.

That’s it for this week.

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Have a bug-free week,

- Michele Volpato