What’s Next

There was a lot jammed into this chapter. Much of Dart should still feel familiar at this point, with some key but (I hope) welcome differences.

Before getting back to building our web application, let’s take a quick look at functions and functional programming in Dart. At first glance, they look very much like their counterparts in JavaScript. But as you will see, there is some impressive syntactic sugar in them that is sure to increase developer joy.

Footnotes

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Technically a LinkedHashMap, which is a subclass of Map

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