Foundations Course - May 2023 Update

Main changes:

• Updated course to Flutter 3.10, Dart 3.0
• Updated course to latest package versions
• Replaced Freezed with sealed classes for error handling
• Replaced downloadable snapshots with git branches

Here are the most important details for each section / lesson. 👇

Section 1

Lesson 01.05:

• Intro to GitHub project → now using git branches

Lesson 01.06:

• New starter project introduction
• Clone from git branch
• Updated pubspec.yaml to latest packages, Dart 3.0

Lesson 01.08:

• Updated overview of main.dart file (now using updated error handling)

Section 2

We’ll be using GoRouter version 7.0.

Lesson 02.01:

• Updated notes to mention version 7.0

Lesson 02.03:

• show how to set the URL path strategy with usePathUrlStrategy

Lesson 02.08:

• Passing parameters to a route: params has been renamed to pathParameters

Lesson 02.12:

• Now showing how to pop routes with GoRouter (with or without a value)

Lesson 02.13:

• Overview of nested navigation
• Explain that ShellRoute has been added but this doesn’t yet support stateful nested navigation

Lesson 02.14:

• Bug fix: no longer passing key: state.pageKey when creating a MaterialPage inside a GoRoute

Section 3

This is mostly the same but now using git branches rather than downloadable zip files.

Section 4

Mostly minor changes.

Lesson 04.03:

• Updated installation instructions to use flutter_riverpod 2.3.6
• Mentioned that Riverpod Generator will be covered in section 13

Section 5

• Removed lesson 05.23 (now addressed at the end of section 2)

Section 6

Only minor changes

Section 7

Only minor changes

Lesson 07.06:

• Updated the notes about how to setup a widget tests for code that uses GoRouter under the hood

Section 8

Only minor changes

Section 9

Only minor changes

Section 10

Revamped this section to show how to use sealed classes rather than Freezed when defining domain-specific exceptions

Lesson 10.04:

• A new lesson about defining an AppException sealed class

Lesson 10.05:

• Showing how to use the AppException class in the project

Lesson 10.09:

• Updated to show how to use multiple_result version 5.0

Section 11

Only minor changes

Section 12

Only minor changes

Section 13

Updated this section to the latest Riverpod Generator version (which supports StreamProvider)

Lesson 11.03:

• Updated installation instructions

Lesson 11.05:

• Showing how to create FutureProviders and StreamProviders with the new API (using Riverpod snippets)