Chapter 1Project: Your First Dart Application

Most programming books start with a “Hello World!” sample. I say, screw that—we’re all hipsters here. Let’s start coding!

Since Dart is written, above all else, to be familiar, you should not be too far out of your depth diving right in. Let’s jump straight to something more fun: an Ajax-powered website. Any true hipster has an extensive collection of comic books (am I right? I’m not the only one, am I?), so let’s consider a simple Dart application that manipulates the contents of that collection via a REST-like interface.

At some point, this may prove too much of a whirlwind. Have no fear—we’ll go into details in subsequent chapters.

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