Top 8 Dart Backend Projects

dart_frog

18 1,738 9.6 Dart

A fast, minimalistic backend framework for Dart 🎯

Project mention: Dart Frog: A fast, minimalistic back end framework for Dart | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-03

celest

2 202 9.0 Dart

The Flutter cloud platform

Project mention: Show HN: Celest – The Flutter Cloud Platform | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-01

> How do you handle versioning? Are there any guidelines/rules one must abide by?
Versioning is not fully fleshed out yet, but we have an open issue for it here: https://github.com/celest-dev/celest/issues/4
It's a problem I want to tackle correctly, so that you'd need to put as little thought into it as possible. It should "just work". Vercel's skew protection [1] stands out as a recent example of doing this well.
> It looks like you using Flutter's Dart<=>JSON serialization; do you recommend using built_value for immutable data structures?
JSON was chosen as the primary serialization format for the reasons mentioned here [2]. Primarily, familiarity to Flutter developers, availability of JSON-compatible types in the wild, and integration with non-Dart clients.
The JSON structure is outlined here (working on a full spec): https://celest.dev/docs/functions/http-requests
built_value types can be used in Celest currently by giving the class `fromJson`/`toJson` methods. I haven't implemented auto-serialization for them, yet, but it should be straightforward. I've used built_value heavily in the past and agree there's no better alternative for some use cases.
> Do you support protobuf/cap'n'proto?
In the future, I plan to support more serialization formats, including protobuf and binary protocols. I will check out cap'n'proto, it was not yet on my radar.
[1] https://vercel.com/docs/deployments/skew-protection
[2] https://x.com/dillonthedev/status/1749806407510381054

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pharaoh

1 127 9.1 Dart

Minimalist web-server library for Dart

Project mention: Pharaoh - Server Side Framework for Dart | /r/dartlang | 2023-11-24

You can find the link to the source code and instructions on how to get started on Github 👉 Pharaoh

minerva

2 56 4.2 Dart

Dart backend framework. Supports multithreading, websockets. It contains project build system, request processing pipeline, authentication aids and logging tools. (by GlebBatykov)
leto

1 37 6.9 Dart

Dart GraphQL server libraries. Utilities, code generator, examples and reference implementation.
mid

3 15 10.0 Dart

Build an End-to-End Typesafe APIs (Experimental) (by osaxma)
backend_benchmark

2 8 5.7 Dart

Backend benchmarking of Python, Node, and Dart frameworks
WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
Endeavor

1 4 10.0 Dart

Dart http backend framweork

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).