Flutter Plugins To Turn Bluecollar Worker Into Awesome Flutter Developer

Confession time! I do not have a computer science degree or an art degree. I come from the blue-collar side of life. Look, when the job ad states degree or experience, you should read that as show us your awesome flutter application. But in order to get that awesome flutter app developed to act as your resume or cv you have to go beyond the general use cases that the flutter SDK was implemented with.

This article will go through the 3rd-party Flutter plugins you should be using and explain why each one is used. And, I will state my biases upfront, as I do have some state management opinions that I follow with good reason.

Let’s start with DevOPS in making things easier when you write Dart code for flutter applications.

DevOPS Flutter Plugins

Briefly, DevOPS refers to developer operations. And our first set of plugins covers improving the static analysis of Dart code, which helps report coding errors in highlighting which code to re-write to fix.

I use a more opinionated lint rule collection as it has helped me avoid type errors, and that plugin is Passy’s lint plugin: