The newbie cloud architect diary

1. A managed platform offering including infrastructure services such as an Identity provider (IdP), a connector to authentication and authorization services, an offline storage and a continuous delivery workflow.
2. A library of rich plugins for accessing device-level functionality like calendar, geolocation and filesystem, or deploying to native runtimes and stores is a Vendor-lock-in. Under the hood, it looks like those are just certified versions of Apache Cordova or Capacitor packages.

<Page loaded="onPageLoaded" xmlns="http://www.nativescript.org/tns.xsd">
    <GridLayout margin="20" columns="auto, *">
        <StackLayout orientation="vertical" dock="top">
          <Button id="Start" tap="tapStart" text="Start"/>
          <Button id="Stop" tap="tapStop" text="Stop"/>
        </StackLayout>
    <Placeholder creatingView="creatingChart" col="1"/>
    </GridLayout>
</Page>

1. It originally ran on the Android operating system (by Google), which is my main target platform, before extending to other platforms, whereas other frameworks are browser-first.
2. Coding is done in Dart programming language (by Google), instead of a patchwork of technologies, even if other frameworks encourage the solely use of Typescript.
3. Graphical design is done declaratively using Materials (by Google), as opposed to error-prone imperatives required by other frameworks. A Flutter Widget catalog is also available.

1. Atop of Dart VM.
2. As native mobile code for Android and iOS.
3. As Javascript code for any Web browser.
4. As machine instructions.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() => runApp(MyApp());

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      title: 'Welcome to Flutter',
      home: Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(
          title: Text('Welcome to Flutter'),
        ),
        body: Center(
          child: Text('Hello World'),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}