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9 Dart Syntactic Sugar Features That Make My Codebase Happier

DEV Community: dart·Hitesh Patel·4 days ago
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I’ve been using Dart for more than 2 years now and after jumping in and out of Kotlin and some other languages, I realized something, Dart has a ton of syntactic sugar that I use daily without even realizing it — and these features quietly make my life somuch easier . Whenever I switch to another language, I start to miss these tiny conveniences — from the power of named/unnamed parameters,to null-aware operators, to the spread operator that makes Flutter codebase so clean. Below are some of my everyday favorites 1. Constructor Shorthand (Initializer Parameters) Instead of this: class Person { String name ; int age ; Person ( String name , int age ) { this . name = name ; this . age = age ; } } Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode You can simply write: class Person { String name ; int age ; Person ( this . name , this . age ); } Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Clean, readable, and less boilerplate. 2.…

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