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  • celest

    The Flutter cloud platform

  • > 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

  • SameAppDifferentTech

    This project contains the SAME MOBILE APP implemented with DIFFERENT tech stacks: React Native, Flutter, Android, iOS.

  • Hey folks, I've created an open source app example using Celest, complete with tests and all. If think it demonstrates Celest use quite well. Here it is:

    https://github.com/marcglasberg/SameAppDifferentTech/tree/ma...

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