Re:Show HN: Celest – Flutter Cloud Platform
by mixmastamyk on Monday April 01, 2024 @07:28PM
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Thanks, believe you answered my question, though I may not have been clear enough before.
I was asking about the demo app as shown in the video on the marketing site. The kinds of apps we'd be expected to build with this. Was not asking about the marketing site itself, though it seemed nice enough.
Re:Show HN: Celest – Flutter Cloud Platform
by dillonnys on Monday April 01, 2024 @07:39PM
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Ah, gotcha! The choice to use Flutter Web in the demo was just for presentational effect. Celest is built to work with all of the Flutter platforms equally.
Re:Show HN: Celest – Flutter Cloud Platform
by mixmastamyk on Monday April 01, 2024 @07:58PM
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Thanks. Is flutter required, or can we use Dart to return html, json, etc?
Though, Flutter Web has come a long ways recently, especially with the WASM work that's underway [1][2]. Flutter is very well positioned, I think, for web applications requiring a lot of interactivity and complex layouts--the DX is phenomenal. For static sites, it's very hard to beat a pure HTML/CSS/JS stack in terms of speed and optimization potential.
That being said, I think there's a good chance we'll see more work on Dart web frameworks going forward. Projects like Zap[3] and Jaspr[4] and doing great work in this area already. And it's safe to say we may see a Celest Web framework one day!
[1] https://flutter.dev/wasm
[2] https://flutterweb-wasm.web.app
[3] https://pub.dev/packages/zap
[4] https://pub.dev/packages/jaspr