Hi everyone,
I was reading about Android jetpack compose and iOS swift UI, and thinking that flutter is falling a little behind on it's lead of developer experience.
IMHO We need to quickly supply developers a live preview of the widget they are working on.
It shouldn't be that hard if dartpad and codepen do it, since vscode is basically a web browser itself.
I feel it would greatly improve developer experience, since you wouldn't need to either:
- spawn an emulator, with all the additional RAM and CPU it consumes wait for it to come online, and then wait for that long initial build;
- connect an external device and wait for that long initial build, and have the device suck the battery out of your laptop, or have to do it all over again;
all this just to check if the widget you're working on looks like what you expected.
Thanks,
Best Regards,
d-silveira