Flutter Widget preview Initial public Beta

[softmarshmallow]

Abstract

• Ability to hot restart widgets of interest
• Ability to provide helpful error messages
• Ability to rapidly navigate / switch between widgets

Features

• Some widgets with complex properties are not supported - force user to create wrapper widget without property to test it out
• Layout Inspector with bult-in debugger (Not possible with daemon)
• VSCode extension build
• Daemon
• Properties Analyzer
  • Support Widget with non-required properties
  • Support Widget with POJO properties
    • string
    • number
    • boolean
    • array<>
    • enum
    • dynamic (any / unknown)
    • Function (callback)
  • Support Widget with dart-ui properties
    • Color
    • Key
    • GlobalKey<ScaffoldState>
  • Support Primary Flutter types
    • Widget (child)
    • Array<Widget> (children)
    • Icon
  • typedef Support
  • Default value for required properties
  • Support Widget with child / children properties
  • No support for Widgets with complex properties
• Messaging interface
• Theme
• Resolve modules (imports)
• Save state (properties)
• Smooth transition on hot restart
• Local FS daemon
• Error handling
  • Handle save after resolving error (hot restart after error resolution) (kill/restart daemon)
• Dart Analyzer
• Logging
  • Booting logs
  • General logs
  • Error logs
  • Compiler (Analyzer) error logs
• Multi-workbench support
• Multi-project support in single workbench
• Clean temp dir
• Re-use ongoing daemon
• Loading state
• Library View (List)
• Cache management
  • Re-use cache
  • Clear cache
• Cached result (screenshot)