Flutter VS flet

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Flutter provides robust support for NFC through third-party packages, making implementation seamless.

if cd flutter; then git pull && cd .. ; else git clone https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git; fi && ls && flutter/bin/flutter doctor && flutter/bin/flutter clean && flutter/bin/flutter config --enable-web

$ flutter --version Flutter 3.27.4 • channel stable • https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git Framework • revision d8a9f9a52e (9 days ago) • 2025-01-31 16:07:18 -0500 Engine • revision 82bd5b7209 Tools • Dart 3.6.2 • DevTools 2.40.3 $ node --version v20.18.1 $ npm --version 10.8.2

Flutter is a powerful, popular, and open-source platform known for its developer-friendly environment, wide ecosystem of libraries, extensions and other tools. A key feature of Flutter app development services is that it promotes the development of cross-platform applications without needing to build or write two or three different codebases.

IMO it would make the most sense if code generation was integral part of the dart build system. Few years ago I described shortcomings of build_runner on github https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/63323, not much changed afaik.

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In this tutorial, I'll show you how to build a full-featured mobile CRUD application with Flutter and Strapi 5.

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The problem with all this combining is that it's making apps less portable. Like I want to make apps that work on desktop+mobile with flet[0], but now I have to specifically seek out more "traditional" alternate packages and hope they stayed in reasonable feature parity with these Rustified Frankensteins. Not a fan at all.

[0] https://flet.dev

In line 7 we define the main app instance to Page; a page is a container for View Controls. So here I won’t go deep into views since it’s beyond the scope of this tutorial, but you reference here.

One cross platform Python framework I found interesting is flet https://flet.dev/

It's powered by Flutter behind the scenes and familiar enough so that you can translate most things from Flutter/Dart tutorials to Flet.

How does it compare to https://nicegui.io/ ?

How does it compare with https://flet.dev/ ?

Does it compete in the niche of making simple things easy and hard things possible?

> When you run flet build command it ... Packages Python app using package command of serious_python package. -- https://flet.dev/docs/guides/python/packaging-app-for-distri...

It looks like Flet is for client-side code. It lets you write Flutter apps with Python instead of Dart.

> Simple Architecture - No more complex architecture with JavaScript frontend, REST API backend, database, cache, etc. With Flet you just write a monolith stateful app in Python only and get multi-user, realtime Single-Page Application (SPA). -- https://flet.dev

If I'm writing Python that runs on the mobile device, it must talk to a server to read & write data. Doesn't this still require an API backend, database, cache, etc?

I just learned of Flet (https://flet.dev) which seems interesting for Python. I may try this as well.