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Aqueduct (web framework written in Dart) needs your help!!
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aqueduct
Dart HTTP server framework for building REST APIs. Includes PostgreSQL ORM and OAuth2 provider.
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Dart HTTP server framework for building REST APIs. Includes PostgreSQL ORM and OAuth2 provider.
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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3 sourcesIt may not have the popularity but it has a well resourced technical team behind its development resulting in the Dart VM being a highly tuned technically brilliant piece of engineering. It has great support for server scenarios like gRPC [1] which I'd imagine is a popular back-end for Flutter iOS/Android Apps which is my personal #1 pick atm for native cross-plat iOS/Android development.
I was an early adopter and saw promise in Dart based on the strength of its technical team (originally led by Lars Bak, Kasper Lund, Gilad Bracha, Bob Nystrom, etc) so invested a lot of time in developing a express-like web framework [2], Jade View Engine [3], Redis Client [4], JSON Client, etc. It had a nice/clean development experience, well-designed / fast libraries and APIs even back then, but abandoned it 6 years ago after going to work full-time on
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my own Startup and have been out of the loop of Dart VM/Server since then. Here's a short list of Dart web server frameworks I could find after a quick Google Search:
https://medium.com/@suragch/web-server-frameworks-for-dart-1...
Looks like Aqueduct [6] is the most popular at 1.4k stars, though I'd expect Dart Server is not going to see a major uptick until Google commits to a major project initiative like they're doing with Flutter & Angular Dart. So it might only see traction as a Dart gRPC server which can still provide an end-to-end development experience with SPA development with Angular Dart / gRPC Web / gRPC Dart and Flutter / gRPC Dart which I'll also add after having gone through a comparison of gRPC clients in different languages [6], Dart has basically the nicest async development experience [7].
[1] https://grpc.io/docs/quickstart/dart/
[2] https://github.com/dartist/express
[3] https://github.com/dartist/jaded
[4] https://github.com/dartist/redis_client
[5] https://github.com/stablekernel/aqueduct
[6] https://github.com/NetCoreApps/todo-world/tree/master/src/cl...
[7] https://github.com/NetCoreApps/todo-world/blob/master/src/cl...
Sure thing. As a server-side language, love it. I also do all my command-line scripting with it, too.
Async/await is implemented really well (Google hired Erik Meijer to help them build it), their threading model is excellent, and there are built-in keywords in the language for stream handling that are seriously productive [1]. Anyone that knows Java/Swift/Kotlin/ObjC is going to be productive in Dart very, very quickly.
Performance has been great, but someone else may be better qualified to answer that question. Much of the lower level socket stuff is just C/C++. I don't want to speak on something I don't fully understand, so I included an article about the Dart VM below [2].
To me, Dart differentiated itself by being more similar to compiled, C-like languages. Obviously, Django, Laravel, Rails, etc. are much more mature. Aqueduct is tes
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ted well [3], but nothing beats years of regression tests.
1: https://www.dartlang.org/articles/language/beyond-async
2: https://www.dartlang.org/articles/dart-vm/why-not-bytecode
3: https://github.com/stablekernel/aqueduct