How To Connect Flutter To Node.js

Power up your apps with a backend

If you are building a new Flutter app you might want to use a backend to process all sorts of data. Here I will tell you exactly how to do that. This will be a beginner’s friendly tutorial for everyone with a bit of knowledge about programming. The best way to understand most of it is by coding along with it.

So let’s start by creating a new flutter project. This is the command that will create a new Flutter project and run it.

flutter create example && cd example && flutter run

If everything runs fine then let’s open up our pubspec.yaml file and add web_socket_channel: ^2.1.0 to it.

Now that this has been completed let’s open main.dart in your lib folder. As you can see Flutter has already prepared an example for a basic Flutter application.

So let’s delete everything that is not useful for us at the moment. Also since this is an app used for a backend application we will not be focusing on the UI.