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This tutorial provides a basic level understanding of the Dart programming language. Dart is an open-source general-purpose programming language. It is originally developed by Google and later approved as a standard by ECMA. Dart is a new programming language meant for the server as well as the browser. Introduced by Google, the Dart SDK ships with its compiler – the Dart VM. The SDK also includes a utility -dart2js, a transpiler that generates JavaScript equivalent of a Dart Script. This tutorial provides a basic level understanding of the Dart programming language.

Audience

This tutorial will be quite helpful for all those developers who want to develop single-page web applications using Dart. It is meant for programmers with a strong hold on object-oriented concepts.

Prerequisites

The tutorial assumes that the readers have adequate exposure to object-oriented programming concepts. If you have worked on JavaScript, then it will help you further to grasp the concepts of Dart quickly.

Overview

Dart is an object-oriented language with C-style syntax which can optionally trans compile into JavaScript. It supports a varied range of programming aids like interfaces, classes, collections, generics, and optional typing.

Dart can be extensively used to create single-page applications. Single-page applications apply only to websites and web applications. Single-page applications enable navigation between different screens of the website without loading a different webpage in the browser. A classic example is GMail ─ when you click on a message in your inbox, browser stays on the same webpage, but JavaScript code hides the inbox and brings the message body on screen.

Google has released a special build of Chromium – the Dart VM. Using Dartium means you don’t have to compile your code to JavaScript until you’re ready to test on other browsers.

The following table compares the features of Dart and JavaScript.

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