Discovering Dart Ecosystem and Community

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Like any language, having a list of resources to find examples and best practices is always nice to have. Unfortunately, Dart is mostly used for/with Flutter, and lot of publications are directly showing Flutter examples instead of talking about Dart itself. Anyway, this not a complete list, only the things I've found on the web and started to check.

Official Dart Website: this is the main entry-point for any Dart developpers, from beginners to advanced.
Official Dart Tutorials: First time using Dart? That's the place to be.
Official Dart documentation: If something goes wrong, or if you want to know what a class, method or attribute is doing, this is the best place.
Official Dart Announcement on Google Group: all important news regarding Dart are published here, useful for the new releases and other critical information about the language.
Official Dart Blog: One can found many interesting information about the language and the community.
Official Dart Package Website: the first place to check if you want to use a specific feature and you don't have time to create it from scratch.
Official Dart API documentation: wants to know more about Dart API and SDK? you'll probably find your answer here.
Official Dart Language Specification: Dart Language has been specified, and the syntax and other rules have been documented.
Effective Dart (Official Dart Best Practices): the official best practice guide from Dart developers.
Official List of Companies using Dart: Want to work with Dart (or Flutter), this page can give you some hints about which companies are using this language in production.

Sources

Having access to open-source projects and official source code is always useful. If you want to learn Dart, you should start by reading the tests and then try to understand the code tested.

Official Dart Github Profile: the page listing all official project supported by Dart.
Official Dart SDK Repository: Dart SDK source code.
Official Dart Language Specification Repository: Dart language specification source code

Interesting Packages

A long list of packages had my attention while I was learning Dart/Flutter, and while I was reading books/publications. Here few of them

actors: an implementation of the Actor Model in Dart.
beam_vm: a plugin to embed an Erlang VM on Android and iOS.
cryptography: cryptographic algorithms implemented in Dart.
dart_amqp: AMQP implementation in Dart.
cbor: an implementation of CBOR/RFC8949 in Dart.
dartzmq: an implementation of zeromq in Dart.
dio: an advanced HTTP networking tool.
drift: a persistent storage layer using SQLite.
ecdsa: an implementation of ECDSA.
ed25519_edwards: an implementation of ed25519 elliptic curve.
flame: a game engine based on dart/flutter.
fpdart (github): Functional Programming in Dart.
oauth2: an OAuth2 client.
postgres: an interface to PostgreSQL database.
pure: add support for many functional programming features, like composition, pipes, memoization and recursion.
sqlite3: an interface to sqlite3 database.
state_machine: Implementation of a finite state machine in Dart.

Books

Dart is a young language, and I was not expecting to find lot of books... I was wrong. Here a quite complete list of all available books.

Dart Apprentice: Fundamentals by the Kodeco Team
Dart Apprentice: Beyond the Basics by Jonathan Sande and the Kodeco Team
Data Structures & Algorithms in Dart by Jonathan Sande and the Koneco Team
The Art of Dart: Master the Dart Programming Language by Kenneth Choi
Dart in Action by Chris Buckett
Mastering DART: Master the art of programming high-performance applications with Dart by Sergey Akopkokhyants
Dart By Example by David Mitchell
Learning Dart by Ivo Balbaert
Dart Essentials by Martin Sikora
Dart Cookbook by Ivo Balbaert
What is Dart? by Kathy Walrath and Seth Ladd
The Dart Programming Lagnuage by Gilad Bracha
Dart Scalable Application Development by Davy Mitchell, Sergey Akopkokhyants and Ivo Balbaert
Dart Up and Running by Kathy Walrath and Seth Ladd
Web Programming with dart by Moises Belchin and Patricia Juberias
Quick Start Guide to Dart Programming by Sanjib Sinha
Dart for Absolute Beginners by David Kopec

Communication Channels

Here a list of the main/official communication channels used by Dart developers - excluding Flutter ones.

StackOverflow: asking/answering questions.
Official Discord Server: a place to chat with Dart developers.
Dart on Reddit: a subreddit for Dart developers.
Dart on dev.to: Another place to read publication about Dart.
Dart Official X/Twitter Account: The official Dart X/Twitter account.
Dart Official Bluesky Account: The official Dart BlueSky account.

Community

A small list of developers using Dart. Most of them are coming from public talks.

Anna Leushchenko (medium, mastodon, dev.to, github).
Björn Sperber (github).
Bob Nystrom (github, blog).
Chris Swan (website, blog, mastodon, linkedin, bluesky).
Csongor Vogel (github, x/twitter, linkedin, instagram, youtube).
Erik Ernst (github, medium).
Eric Saidel (blog, github, mastodon, linkedin, x/twitter).
Evgeny Kot (github, x/twitter).
Filipe A. Barroso (dev.to, medium, github, linkedin).
Gilad Bracha (website, blog).
Jaime Wren (github, medium).
Kasper Lund (github).
Karl Krukow (github, blog, x/twitter).
Kevin Moore (github, website, bluesky, medium).
Kresten Krab Thorup (github, x/twitter, blusky, mastodon).
Leaf Peterson (github, website, x/twitter).
Majid Hajian (website, medium, github, blog, x/twitter, linkedin).
Miguel Beltran (github, website, bluesky).
Mike Diarmid (github, mastodon, x/twitter, bluesky, linkedin, medium).
Norbert Kozsir (website, blog, x/twitter, github, medium).
Pascal Welsch (website, github, mastodon, medium).
Randal Schwartz (github, medium, dev.to, mastodon).
Razvan Cristian Lung (github, linkedin, medium).
Roman Jaquez (medium, youtube, github).
Simon Binder (website, github, mastodon).
Vadym Pinchuk (github, medium, linkedin, instagram).
Vyacheslav "Slava" Egorov (blog, medium, github, Substack, Mastodon, Linkedin).

Courses

Only free courses are listed here. More can be found on Udemy or other MOOC platforms.

Publications

Dart has been designed by Lars Bak and Kasper Lund at Google, but also backed by the scholars and academics. Many interesting publications can be found on Dart, here a short list of them.