Chapter 11. Webserver and Middleware
In this chapter, you will go through the basics of setting up a web server and exposing a JSON API. Dart ships with a built-in library named HTTPServer for serving content over the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The HttpServer class acts as the foundation for implementing futures-based request and response handlers.
The HttpServer class is extremely extensible and is used as the foundation for many higher-level server libraries. One of those libraries is named Shelf and is a Google-supported project for composing web servers and other middleware. In Chapter 12, you’ll be taking a look at how to use Shelf to build out a RESTful API for your ticketing application.
Shelf
Shelf provides a consistent pattern ...
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