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Marlon Englemam
Marlon Englemam

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First impression on Flutter as a React Native dev (pt II)

Take a look at what I've been coding: https://github.com/MarlonX19

A few days ago I wrote a post in which I briefly described my first (not so good) impressions on Flutter, just in case you don't know what Flutter is: it's Google's framework for cross-platform mobile development, using Dart you code apps that run on both Android and iOS.

I felt the need to come back here and state some of the features that I enjoyed about all this Flutter experience thing. Feel free to share your thoughts.

EASY TO INSTALL

Ok, I must admit it is really easy to set up your environment and get started with Flutter, I wasn't expecting that! React Native can be a little tricky and sometimes takes you a few hours to get everything properly working, Flutter made everything easy and fast.


EASY TO USE

Even though I consider Flutter's code hard to read, messy and even a bit hideous I also found it easy to use when it comes to Widgets, you have a lot of Widgets at your disposal, you just have to import them, use them and make changes in case you need it, that allows you to save time.


EASY INTEGRATION

Since Flutter is still kind of new I wasn't expecting it to be easy to use on IDEs, needless to say I fell in love with how easily it integrated with VSCode, for example. Plus, its autocomplete, code suggestions and snippets in general are so handy!


COMMUNITY

Flutter community seems to become bigger every day and that surprised me, even in Portuguese, which is my native language, I was able to find a lot of content and help when needed.

I plan on continuing my studies in Flutter!

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