How to use constructor tear-offs in Dart

In Dart 2.15, it was announced a new language feature called constructor tear-offs. Now, you can treat constructors as regular functions that returns an instance of a class.

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Enabling constructor tear-offs

To use this feature, you just have to have Dart 2.15 (or any higher version) installed in your system:

$ dart --version  
# Dart SDK version: 2.15.1 (stable) ...

At your pubspec.yaml, it is import to update the SDK version to have 2.15 (or any higher version installed in your system) as the minimum version:

...
environment:
  sdk: ">=2.15.0 <3.0.0"
...

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Examples with Flutter

1 - Let's think in a simple example:

Column(
  children: ['Apple', 'Orange'].map((word) => Text(word)).toList(),
);

With constructor tear-offs, you can simplify this expression as the following:

Column(
  children: ['Apple', 'Orange'].map(Text.new).toList(),
);

2 - Code abstraction is also made easier with this syntax:

Widget widget;

switch (type) {
  case "outlined":
    widget = OutlinedButton(
      onPressed: () {},
      child: const Text("Button"),
    );
    break;
  case "text":
    widget = TextButton(
      onPressed: () {},
      child: const Text("Button"),
    );
    break;
  default:
    widget = ElevatedButton(
      onPressed: () {},
      child: const Text("Button"),
    );
}

Abstracting...

Function button;

switch (type) {
  case "outlined":
    button = OutlinedButton.new;
    break;
  case "text":
    button = TextButton.new;
    break;
  default:
    button = ElevatedButton.new;
}

Widget widget = button(
  onPressed: () {},
  child: const Text("Button"),
);