schultek
feat: Flutter backend for jaspr
What would be the feasibility of creating a Flutter backend for jaspr, which would allow proper native Web applications and native Flutter applications to be created from a single jaspr codebase? (I don't want to create mobile apps that are just a thin wrapper around a webview.)
What I mean is using the jaspr API (which looks like Flutter but is not Flutter) to build web UIs for the browser, but also Flutter native apps, from the same codebase. In other words, mapping the jaspr API onto to Flutter API.
Could certainly be interesting to explore. But not by me anytime soon, this isn't a goal of Jaspr rn and I have lots of other priorities.
What I mean is using the jaspr API (which looks like Flutter but is not Flutter) to build web UIs for the browser, but also Flutter native apps, from the same codebase. In other words, mapping the jaspr API onto to Flutter API.
I think this is a cool idea for some future concept; however, I think the current way that Flutter works kind of doesn't play well with Jaspr especially with the plethora of widgets you would need to build in Jaspr to match that of Flutter's.
You are missing my point. I am only suggesting that the widgets that Jaspr already supports be able to be rendered not just to an HTML DOM, as currently works, but also to a Flutter widget tree, for accelerated rendering on mobile platforms. Jaspr doesn't need to support all of Flutter's widgets: it just needs to be able to generate Flutter calls for all of Jaspr's widgets.
Ah ok, I understand, seems really convenient then, but what about styling? I am guessing you would need to support some form of converting things like padding and all of that to Flutter's widgets.