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Flutter DevOPS Production Hacks Begin With The Right IDE
Google lists 3 IDEs in the flutter docs, VSCode, Android, and Emacs. But notice that Google lists the open-sourced VSCode (Visual Studio Code) first.
This is in fact due to being able to have a better devOPS workflow with VSCode in flutter app design and development than with either Android Studio or Emacs. In this article, I cover a more opinionated VSCode set up that I use in my own Flutter app design workflow.
Why A Web IDE
Okay, let me let you in how computer science gets passed on down to the lower levels of development. With computer languages and frameworks becoming more powerful and easier, tools including IDEs evolve to the common computer language that everyone knows. In the case of front-end development that is in fact the languages of the web, i.e. HTML, CSS, and ECMAScript.
And the side benefit beyond everyone being able to create IDE plugins is the fact that we get to use those same languages to leverage and customize our own IDE workflows.
Microsoft’s VSCode is an open-source IDE engine and IDE based on node.js and the electron framework. Now, let me explain the IDE engine part and what edition you should use.
