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IMO, Flutter for web only makes sense if you already have a mobile or desktop app done, and you are looking for a quick win: if your app is architected properly
by serial_dev 5y ago
IMO, Flutter for web only makes sense if you already have a mobile or desktop app done, and you are looking for a quick win: if your app is architected properly, adding web support for a mobile app project is really a matter of hours (or even minutes) which is amazing if you can live with the less-than-perfect UX.
Flutter on the web looks like Flash, everything feels very off, scrolling, keyboard support, text selection, etc everything just feels strange or doesn't work and it provides a poor end user experience.
Apart from the good mobile experience, I'm also excited about Flutter on desktop. It might not be "there" yet (I don't know, I am not using it in production), but it's promising and could be a good alternative to native desktop development and Electron.
- PascalW 5y agoFlutter for web is quite rapidly improving in all the areas you mentioned. For right now I think it's already very suitable for highly complex browser applications such as a Figma, Google sheets etc. Load times aren't the best due to a quite hefty WASM download, but for _applications_ that you typically open only a couple of times per day and where you work in for several hours, that initial loading delay really doesn't matter. Just don't expect to use it for an E-Commerce site or something like that.