Server Side Rendering Flutter Apps with RFW

This post will guide you how to build a Flutter app that takes advantage of Server Side Rendering (SSR) and being able to update UI dynamically.

If you are new to flutter you can follow this post on getting started

This technique will use the rfw package on the server and client to send binary data via HTTP requests.

TLDR You can find the final source here.

Getting started 

Create a new directory called flutter_ssr and navigate to it in terminal or open it up in your favorite IDE.

Approaches to updates 

If you are in the mobile world then you know how challenging it can be to get all your users on the latest version. Even just having an API or database schema can be very hard to update because of users on older versions (sometimes due to OS limitations).