Dart Shelf Server Sample

• Dart Shelf Server Sample
  • Features
  • Getting Started
  • Configuration
  • API
  • Static Files
  • Dart to JS
  • License

Features

A web server built using Shelf. Following features have been implemented:

• Serve a REST API in JSON
• Serve static files from the server
• Render HTML
• Compile Dart Code to Javascript

Getting Started

Perform the following operations to set up the project.

git clone https://github.com/ravgeetdhillon/dart_shelf_server_sample
pub get
nodemon

Nodemon is an NPM package used to watch for the changes in source code and restart the shelf server automatically. You can install it by doing npm i -g nodemon.

Visit http://localhost:8080 and make sure you see the following screen:

Configuration

All of the configurable constants are present in lib/config/constants.dart.

API

All the data related to API is stored in the data/api directory.

Routes	Description
GET /posts	Get all the posts
GET /posts/{id}	Get a single post identified by its id
GET /files	Get a list of files available on the server

Static Files

Use the /files route to get the list of static files available on the server. Static files are stored in the files directory.

Dart to JS

Dart code is compiled to JS using the dart2js library. Nodemon automatically watches for the changes in lib and bin directories and runs dart2js -o public/assets/script.js lib/standalone/index.dart.

License

MIT