Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Dart - A Modern Web Programming Language -- What is Dart? -- Dart is a perfect fit for HTML5 -- A very short history of web programming -- Dart empowers the web client -- JavaScript is not the way to go for complex apps -- Google, GWT, and Dart -- Advantages of Dart -- Getting started with Dart -- Installing the Dart Editor -- Your first Dart program -- Getting a view on the Dart tool chain -- The Dart execution model -- A bird's eye view on Dart -- Example 1 - raising rabbits -- Extracting a function -- A web version -- Example 2 - banking -- Making a todo list with Dart -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Getting to Work with Dart -- Variables - to type or not to type -- Built-in types and their methods -- Conversions -- Operators -- Some useful String methods -- Dates and times -- Lists -- Maps -- Documenting your programs -- Changing the execution flow of a program -- Using functions in Dart -- Return types -- Parameters -- First class functions -- Recognizing and catching errors and exceptions -- Debugging exercise -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Structuring Code with Classes and Libraries -- A touch of class - how to use classes and objects -- Visibility - getters and setters -- Types of constructors -- Named constructors -- factory constructors -- const constructors -- Inheritance -- Abstract classes and methods -- The interface of a class - implementing interfaces -- Polymorphism and the dynamic nature of Dart -- Collection types and generics -- Typing collections and generics -- The collection hierarchy and its functional nature -- Structuring your code using libraries -- Using a library in an app -- Resolving name conflicts -- Visibility of objects outside a library -- Managing library dependencies with pub.

Unit testing in Dart -- Project - word frequency -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Modeling Web Applications with Model Concepts and Dartlero -- A short introduction to Git and GitHub -- Creating a repository on GitHub and a local version -- Collaborating on a GitHub project -- What a model is and why we need it in programming -- Model concepts - a graphical design tool for our models -- Working with model concepts -- Explaining the model -- Drawing the model -- Exporting the model -- What is JSON? -- Dartlero - a simple domain model framework -- An example of using Dartlero -- The categories and links application -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Handling the DOM in a New Way -- Finding elements and changing their attributes -- Finding elements -- Changing the attributes of elements -- Creating and removing elements -- Handling events -- Manipulating the style of page elements -- Animating a game -- Ping Pong using style(s) -- How to draw on a canvas - Ping Pong revisited -- Spiral 1 - drawing a circle and a rectangle -- Spiral 2 - colored circles and rectangles -- Spiral 3 - moving a ball -- Spiral 4 - reorganizing the code -- Spiral 5 - a bouncing ball -- Spiral 6 - displaying the racket -- Spiral 7 - moving the racket using keys -- Spiral 8 - moving the racket using the mouse -- Spiral 9 - a real game -- Spiral 10 - title and replay -- Spiral 11 - the master version -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Combining HTML5 Forms with Dart -- Spiral 1 - the power of HTML5 forms -- Spiral 2 - how to validate data with Dart -- Validation in the model -- Spiral 3 - how to store data in local storage -- Spiral 4 - reading and showing data -- Spiral 5 - changing and updating data -- Spiral 6 - working with a list of bank accounts -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Building Games with HTML5 and Dart -- The model for the memory game -- Spiral 1 - drawing the board -- Spiral 2 - drawing cells.

Spiral 3 - coloring the cells -- Spiral 4 - implementing the rules -- Spiral 5 - game logic (bringing in the time element) -- Spiral 6 - some finishing touches -- Spiral 7 - using images -- Adding audio to a web page -- Using an audio library - Collision clones -- Adding video to a web page -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Developing Business Applications with Polymer Web Components -- How web components change web development -- Web components with Polymer.dart -- Declaring and instantiating a web component -- Two-way data binding in Polymer.dart -- Creating the polymer_links project -- Spiral s01 -- Spiral s02 -- Spiral s04 -- Spiral s05 -- Spiral s06 -- Using Polymer for the category links project -- Adding local storage -- Applying web components to the project tasks app -- Add and remove Task propagations -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Modeling More Complex Applications with Dartling -- The Dartling domain modeling framework -- Design of the Travel Impressions model in spirals -- Generating Travel Impressions code from the model -- Initializing the Travel Impressions model with Data -- Testing the Travel Impressions model -- Defining and using the MVC pattern -- The TodoMVC app -- Spiral 0 - generating a class model -- Spiral 1 - adding todo tasks -- Spiral 2 - showing how many todo tasks left -- Spiral 3 - removing a single task and completed tasks -- Spiral 4 - editing todos (undo and redo) -- Spiral 5 - displaying completed, remaining, or all todos -- Spiral 6 - editing a task -- Summary -- Chapter 10: MVC Web and UI Frameworks in Dart - An Overview -- DQuery -- Bootjack -- Dart Web Toolkit (DWT) -- The dartling_dwt_todo_mvc_spirals project -- Dart widgets -- Bee -- HTML components -- Rikulo UI -- Rikulo MVC -- Hipster-mvc -- Puremvc -- StageXL -- Flash Professional CC - toolkit for Dart -- Angular.dart -- Summary.

Chapter 11: Local Data and Client-Server Communication -- The options for browser storage -- Asynchronous calls and Futures -- Using IndexedDB with Dart -- Spiral s00 -- Spiral s01 -- Spiral s02 -- Spiral s03 -- Spiral s04 -- Spiral s05 -- Using Lawndart -- A Dart web server -- Using JSON web services -- Spiral s07 -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Data-driven Web Applications with MySQL and MongoDB -- Database drivers for Dart -- Storing todo data in MySQL -- Dartlero tasks - a many-to-many model in MySQL -- The JSON storage -- MySQL storage -- MongoDB - a NoSQL database -- Using the mongo_dart driver to store the todo data in MongoDB -- Summary -- Index.