Flutter For Web An Ultimate Guide on Flutter Web Development Along with Demo
Google’s UI library- Flutter, was initially developed to build native performant mobile applications. Nonetheless, Flutter isn’t limited to just mobile applications; it has been working proactively to use the single codebase for iOS, Android, and Desktop. Are you passionate about Web Development? You should definitely try out Flutter for Web then!
In this guide, we will learn about Flutter for Web and build a small demo for the same. Without further ado, let’s get started with Flutter Web development!
Flutter’s web support helps you develop complex standalone web applications, graphically rich and interactive content to reach end-users on a broad variety of devices.
Flutter for Web support offers a delivery model based on browsers for the existing Flutter mobile applications.
How does Flutter for Web work?
Flutter renders web apps the same way as it will render your android/iOS apps, i.e., Flutter Web will convert your project to native code (HTML, CSS, JS) when you wish to deploy. Now, keep in mind that Flutter Web creates Single Page Web Applications! You can definitely have multi-pages, but when the Flutter framework converts the web app into the native language, there will only be one HTML file, i.e., index.html.
So how do we have multiple pages? The answer to this question is pretty simple. If we have a closer look at how Navigator works, we will observe that it works on the Stack data structure. Hence, Flutter for Web is a single page, but it pushes multiple pages on that same single native page.
How is the performance for Flutter Web, and how is it different?
Flutter Web works pretty smooth compared to native as it creates only a single-page application and hence creates less load on the browser. Though we can say that Flutter Web is improving, its performance is not upto the mark.
With Flutter, you can create some great animations very easily compared to native, hence making your web app more beautiful.
Flutter Web directly supports installing your website as a standalone application (Web-App) for which you need to code, if in native, separately.
Flutter, as it is a cross-platform framework, can add some platform-specific code without any configuration changes.
Read more: How to run your existing project on Flutter Web?