Awesome Dart

A curated list of awesome Dart frameworks, libraries, and software. Items on the list are actively maintained, well documented, and popular in the Dart community. Inspired by the awesome lists.

• Client Web App Frameworks
• Server Frameworks
• Game Development
• Animation
• Template
• Database
• Package Managers
• Utilities
• Dependency Injection
• Parsers
• Validation
• ORM
• Image
• Testing
• Tools
• IDEs and Plugins
• Everything Else

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Client Web App Frameworks

• Angular - Angular is a framework for building client web-apps.
• Polymer - Use polymer to build structured, encapsulated, client-side web apps with web components.

Server Frameworks

• Redstone - A metadata driven microframework
• Start - Sinatra inspired web framework to serve static files, handle dynamic requests, websockets and create JSON responses.
• Express - A simple, thin expressjs inspired layer around Dart's primitive HttpServer APIs.
• Shelf - Shelf makes it easy to create and compose web servers and parts of web servers.
  • There are many packages written for Shelf. By convention they start with shelf_
• Force - A real time web framework, embracing websockets, making communication even better
• Vane - Framework with built-in server runtime environment and middleware system
• Rikulo Stream - Lightweight web server with request routing, filtering, template engine, WebSocket, MVC design pattern, and file-based static resources

Game Development

• StageXL - StageXL offers an easy to use and complete API (based on the Flash API) for impressive 2D content like games and other rich applications.
• Spectre - Spectre is a modern graphics API aimed at developers creating games and other interactive 3D applications.
• DartRocket - DartRocket is an easy to use HTML5 game engine for making 2D HTML5 games.
• Pixi Dart - A port of the pixi.js rendering engine.
• Ranger - A game engine centered around HTML5 Canvas and a scene graph.
• VilTAGE - Provides an easy way of making Dart ASCII based games.

Animation

• Universal Tween Engine - A port of the original java Universal Tween Engine created by Aurelien Ribbon.
• Spine Dart - An implementation of the Esoteric Software Spine runtime.

Template

• mustache4dart - A simple implementation of Mustache.
• jaded - Port of the excellent Jade view engine.

Database

• SQLJockey - MySQL connector.
• PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL database driver
• Dartabase - Rails-like migration and model tool for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases

Package Managers

• Pub - Pub is used to manage packages.

Utilities

• Quiver - A set of utility libraries that makes using many libraries easier and more convenient, or adds additional functionality.
• Route - A client routing library.
• Archive - A library to encode and decode various archive and compression formats.

Dependency Injection

• DI - Dependency Injection framework by Angular

Parsers

• html5lib - A library for working with HTML documents.
• XML - A lightweight library for parsing, traversing, querying and building XML documents.
• PetitParser - PetitParser combines ideas from scannerless parsing, parser combinators, parsing expression grammars and packrat parsers to model grammars and parsers as objects that can be reconfigured dynamically.
• markdown - Parse markdown into HTML on both the client and server.
• YAML - A parser for YAML.

Validation

• Constrain - Provides a constraint based Validation library inspired by Java Bean Validation but leveraging the superior language capabilities of Dart.
• validator.dart - String validation and sanitization for Dart.

ORM

• Objectory - Objectory provides typed, checked environment to model, save and query data persisted on MongoDb.

Image

• image - Library for decoding/encoding image formats, and image processing.

Testing

• unittest - A library for writing dart unit tests.
• Guinness - A port of the Jasmine library.

Tools

• Observatory - Observatory is a tool for profiling and debugging your Dart applications.
• dart2js - compiles Dart code to JavaScript
• js2dart - compiles Javascript code to Dart
• Stagehand - A project scaffolding generator, inspired by tools like Web Starter Kit and Yeoman.

IDEs and Plugins

• Dart Editor - An open-source tool for editing, debugging, and running Dart applications.
• IntelliJ Plugin - Dart plugin from JetBrains for WebStorm, IntelliJ IDEA, PhpStorm, PyCharm, and RubyMine.
• Sublime Text Package - Sublime Text 3 Dart Package
• Eclipse Plugin - Dart plugin for Eclipse.
• Emacs Plugin - An Emacs mode for the Dart language
• Vim Plugin - Syntax highlighting for Dart in Vim

Everything Else

There are lots of awesome libraries being added to Pub all the time. If you can't find a library on this list that meets your needs, go ahead and search for it on Pub. And if you end up finding an awesome library, we would love a pull request with the info so that everyone else can discover it as well. Just make sure to read the contributing guidlines first.