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Re:Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedde... by networkimprov on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @05:53PM (#19853794)
Maybe Flutter works as a client to a native localhost app? (Analogous to the browser for a localhost web app like Jupyter Notebook[1].)

Does it have a Websocket client?

[1] https://jupyter.org

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Re:Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedde... by kllrnohj on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @07:20PM (#19854371)
There's no reason to bother with websocket stuff, you can just call out to native code via platform channels ( https://flutter.dev/docs/development/platform-integration/pl... )

Just that once you do that you're no longer a portable cross-platform app, and there's limits to what you can do with that pipe in terms of data marshaling and the overhead from that.

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Re:Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedde... by networkimprov on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @07:40PM (#19854504)
Unless you're porting an existing localhost web app which is accessed via Websockets.
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Re:Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedde... by Hixie on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @07:24PM (#19854396)
https://master-api.flutter.dev/flutter/dart-io/WebSocket-cla...
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