31.30 Flutter Code Analysis and Formatting

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Dart provides commands to format the code properly and to provide coding suggestions for the code.

To analyse all Dart files under the lib folder:

dart analyze lib
dart format lib
dart format lib --line-length=100

To automatically format code in vscode, installing the flutter extension, set editor.formatOnSave to true.

To automatically format code in emacs on saving a file and to automatically revert the current buffer to the now changed saved file:

(defun format-dart-on-save ()
  "Run dart format on save."
  (when (eq major-mode 'dart-mode)
    (shell-command-to-string (format "dart format %s" buffer-file-name))))

(add-hook 'after-save-hook #'format-dart-on-save)

(global-auto-revert-mode t)


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