Pre-build steps for Flutter using Visual Studio Code

February 20, 2020  2 minute read  

Flutter is not a build system. I know, it’s a terrible way to start, but you have to accept that you need to produce a build system for Flutter. There are build systems written in Dart (such as this one), and I’m sure this situation will get better, but right now? There isn’t a good build system. So I use the node package manager. Here is my basic flow: Run npm init -y. Edit the produced package.json file to use flutter under the covers. Run flutter with npm start instead of the ...