This week in Flutter #78: What is Flutter Forward?

The Flutter team gave more information about the announcement they made last week.

They are still not giving any precise information, but expect to see what they are working on and expect to get more updates between now and January 25.

- Michele Volpato

Development 🧑‍💻

Devblog 4: Sidetracked

by Stephan E.G. Veenstra

Everybody gets sidetracked at one point. You are working on some project, and eight hours later you are deep into some implementation detail that should have taken you just a few minutes to address. Usually, developers do not blog about these situations, which is why I appreciate this article by Stephan. The important thing is to realize that you are not working on what is important, get out of the rabbit hole and go on with the project.

Backend 🗄

Auto-detect a user country and locale in Flutter

by Femi-ige Muyiwa

In this tutorial, you learn how to use the Locale API of Appwrite to customize your Flutter app based on the location of your users.

Serverside Dart

by Darshan Rander

A comparison between serverside frameworks in Dart and other languages.

Others 🤷‍♂️

FutureBuilder (Widget of the Week)

with Khanh Nguyen

As Khanh says: “Soooo don’t be obtaining your futures from within the FutureBuilder, y’all!” That is why they published a new version of this video.

That’s it for this week.

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Have a bug-free week,

- Michele Volpato