Dartbased

Dartbased is an open-source framework and library suite designed for building Dart applications across platforms. It provides a modular architecture, a component-based UI model, and a reactive data flow intended to streamline development of client-side and server-side projects while staying within the Dart ecosystem.

Developed by a community of Dart developers in the late 2010s, Dartbased aims to complement Dart's existing tooling by offering a cohesive set of patterns for architecture, state management, and testing. The project is hosted with an independent governance model and relies on contributions from volunteers and organizations.

At its core, Dartbased organizes software as modular packages with a focus on strong typing and explicit dependencies. UI is built from reusable widgets, while the data layer emphasizes streams and reactive updates. The framework includes a routing layer, a dependency injection mechanism, and a build-time code generation system to reduce boilerplate.

Key features include cross-platform support for web, mobile, and desktop targets; a package-compatible module system; a declarative UI DSL or widget set; built-in state management patterns; test utilities and mocks; and an extensible plugin system for tooling and integrations with Flutter, when used together.

Projects start with a Dartbased application skeleton, followed by adding dependencies through the Dart package manager. Developers organize code into modules and widgets, implement routes and services, and use the framework's tooling to run, test, and deploy across platforms.

Dartbased occupies a niche within the Dart community, valued for its organized architecture and code-generation capabilities but noted for a learning curve and varying ecosystem maturity across platforms. It is one of several options for structuring large Dart applications.