Chapter 6. Event Loops and Asynchronous Programming
Asynchronous programming is at the core of modern web application development for both front-end and back-end developers. Dart has a great set of tools that allow you to interact with remote services and to write non-blocking code. This chapter looks at the Dart event loop and how to write asynchronous requests.
Concurrent Computing Paradigm
Dart is single threaded. This means that, by default, only a single CPU process is associated with the Dart VM. Having only one process means that your Dart code will execute in a linear fashion and won’t be disrupted. This produces a challenge for developers who are trying to load data from other sources.
Let’s imagine that you have a timer that is displaying ...
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