Step5-2 Note about import

In this step, we are going to

  • Learn how to import files in flutter

Note about "import"

There are two types of import in flutter

  • package imports
  • relative imports

flutter-import-files

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50732897/whats-the-different-between-full-path-and-relative-path-in-dart

But

According to flutter maintainer, we should use package imports.

I think the conclusion to this problem was that lib/main.dart should always only contain package imports, then Dart is able to canonicalize libraries properly no matter what form the imports are in other libraries.

https://github.com/flutter/flutter-intellij/issues/2015

And I also encountered VS code code completion issue when using relative imports.

That's why in this course, we're going to use packages import.

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