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New site for Dart news and articles

For the latest Dart news, visit our new blog at  https://medium.com/dartlang .

Dart plugin for IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm

The Dart plugin for IntelliJ IDEA-based IDEs, has a new release with important enhancements. Notably, the plugin is now compatible with all versions of IntelliJ IDEA, including IDEA 13.1 Community Edition—the free open-source version of IntelliJ IDEA. This means you can get a version of the IntelliJ IDE with Dart auto-completion, code validation, package management, quick fixes, navigation, and full-featured command-line app debugging for free! Pub Integration The Dart plugin features rich pub integration. The pub tool commands get, upgrade, and build are available by context-clicking the pubspec.yaml file. Configuring the SDK When creating a new Dart project with the project wizard or starting a Dart project in the IDE for the first time, you’re asked to set up the path to Dart SDK. If the SDK was downloaded together with Dart Editor, the path to Dartium is added automatically. You can configure command-line options and a custom user data directory for Dartium. With

Dart 1.3 dramatically improves server-side performance

With Dart SDK 1.3, we’ve improved performance of async code running in the Dart VM and made substantial improvements to dart:io. This results in some of our experimental HTTP benchmarks now running at more than twice the speed of the previous release. We continuously track these benchmarks on the new Dart I/O performance page . In the Dart Editor, “Run as JavaScript” now uses pub serve , which serves your web app’s assets and does code transformations using a development server built into pub. This makes your development workflow faster and more streamlined. For users of AngularDart we have other good news in store: the Dart Editor now has support for Angular code completions and improved Angular analysis and refactoring support. Building web apps using Dart and Angular just got even more productive! You can download Dart 1.3 from the Download Dart page . If you are running the Dart Editor, you can update by checking "About Dart Editor". Don’t forget to tell us