Dart News & Updates

The Spark project is a new development environment built with Dart and Polymer for the Chrome Apps platform. Spark is an open-source project hosted on Github. François Beaufort reports that the project contains GUI widgets powered by Polymer, the new library for modern web apps build on Web Components. Spark's primary focus is building web apps written in Dart and Chrome App based applications. It is an early example of how to combine Dart, Polymer, Dart-JavaScript interop, and Chrome Apps to build a modern app using web technologies.

Dart engineer John Messerly announces the launch of polymer.dart, a port of the  Polymer stack . The Web UI package will be maintained for some time, but will eventually be replaced by polymer.dart. Here is John's  original post introducing polymer.dart : Hello Dartisans, Since we started Web UI, we've had a goal to bring the latest web standards like Web Components and Model-Driven Views to Dart developers. There have been some great developments since we started: Web Components has progressed into a set of detailed specs ( Custom Elements , Shadow DOM , HTML Templates , HTML Imports ) with interest and implementation by multiple browser vendors. Model-Driven Views has new APIs ( Node.bind , TemplateElement.model ) that allow custom elements to participate in the binding system, as well as the ability to plug in custom syntax, such as the fancy_syntax package. dart:mirrors is now implemented in dart2js! Last but not least: the development of the Pol...