I embarked on a journey trying to build the best monorepo I can, documenting the process as I go, and seeking public opinions and advice. Read more about the experiment here, follow the progress on Twitter (@AmirHardon) and Medium. This post discusses the choice of a source control system. In…

One cool thing that Ian Hickson added early on to the Flutter project was a Technical Debt Tracker. The idea is to scan the codebase for pieces of technical debt like TODOs, assign an approximate dollar cost to each, and present it in a graph like any other benchmark. This…

Asking a widget to be something vs. do something When writing widgets that manage non-trivial state, it sometimes becomes a struggle to maintain a clean API. I think that, in many cases, this is because one hits the expressiveness boundaries of constructor-based APIs. We’ve been dealing with such cases in…

The Flux and Redux application architectures work well with reactive view frameworks like Flutter. Both architectures share two powerful notions: creating a unidirectional data flow in an application, and a clean separation between business and presentation logic. It’s not always clear where to fit animation state management within these architectures…