NeoVim With Flutter is AWESOME

[@codegambit2507]

People might be asking the question "why switch to neovim?". In my case, it makes more sense. Although I use a MacBook Pro M1 pro which has great battery life btw, I live in Nigeria and the electricity is not constant. Sometimes I notice the macbook gets so hot and the battery keeps going down at a faster pace. I open the activity monitor and guess the culprit? Yeah VS code. I think it's also damaging the battery life. This happens every time and the culprit is always VS code. If I should quit VS code and wait some minutes, the laptop starts getting cooler and the battery stops going down at that fast pace. This is why I decided to start learning to use neovim and I'm loving it. I haven't really found the perfect configuration for flutter specifically tho

[@RobertBrunhage]

Great take! My reason for switching was that I thought it seemed fun, and I still do 😂

[@avatar_ng]

omg the flutter-watch command is amazing

[@RobertBrunhage]

I just wish we had flutter watch as part of the commands in Flutter haha. No worries, glad you liked it!

[@mikemegalodon2114]

This is just the video i wanted, flutter neovim and tmux

[@RobertBrunhage]

Considering doing more content about it. I would never go back to using something else than neovim and tmux. Also it's fun :))

[@guilchaves]

i was assigned to a new project that uses flutter, this really helped. thank you.

[@SeriousSerge]

As always great video! i was just looking into starting to use nvim. I quite like vscode but ill be doing development in remote machines soon because of reasons and this fits my needs like a glove. just ssh into the remote and have nvim set up there and voila! Thanks for your great content, you''ve been alot of help

[@tayabfarooq2062]

great to see you back after long time!

[@RobertBrunhage]

Fun to be back!

[@tayabfarooq2062]

@@RobertBrunhage Sir I have one question, Sir I am using custom ML model integration in Flutter for Android & IOS but is there any way for Flutter Web? I am searching for it, for a very long time but i can not find one

[@nero1375]

Do not forget about flutter-tools plugin!

[@RobertBrunhage]

Yeah, believe I mentioned it. Had so many small issues with it in the end that I just went to the terminal instead. I do like the terminal approach a bit more though (as long as you have Tmux or similar)

[@utkarshj1]

here after updated lazy approach to plugins, thanks for the setup repo

[@muhammadvikral4367]

I iust knows that you can watch changes like that when running flutter via terminal. I use flutter-tools atm but i hate it when my vim crashed or my lsp start doing something weird i had to restart my nvim, and my had to rerun my flutter app. Thank you so much for the runner info, it will be such a great quality of life for me

[@rd_626]

Honestly, this video is incredibly informative and helpful. Thank you, Robert!

[@artofnessa]

NeoWIN!!

[@ChristianKyony]

Fantastic videos for the hard-core (neo-)vimers like me. I like what you have done with flutter-watch, tmux, harpoon and also the window manager yabai as I use a MacBook Pro (I really missed xmonad).

[@lukasklingsbo3391]

Good stuff! 🔥

[@RobertBrunhage]

Converting people 1 by 1

[@Ellefsen97]

How do you set up the keybindings for the flutter related lsp, like documentation popups, see definition and autocompletion? I'm struggling with the setup

[@RobertBrunhage]

You can find my dotfiles but here is the related file for setting that up -> github.com/RobertBrunhage/.dotfiles/blob/main/nvim/.config/nvim/after/plugin/lsp.lua

[@Ellefsen97]

@@RobertBrunhage Thanks a lot! I'm new to nvim and it's a lot to learn. Thanks to you I now got a functional nvim for Flutter development. I truly appreciate the help

[@DevMartins_]

Thanks man, you saved my life! =D

[@albuslrc]

Great video 😄

[@TechBuddy_]

I created my flutter watch using the dart process spawning manually cuz I stopped using nodemon as the node executable already comes with watch flag nowadays Great video btw, harpoon helps me soo much like constantly switching between the same 3 to 4 files is sooo easy with it I can't live without it anymore

[@RobertBrunhage]

Oh awesome, didn't know that, would love to see the script!

[@TechBuddy_]

@@RobertBrunhage I am a Lil busy rn I will send the code in discord once I am home :)

[@gorudonu]

I have a script to watch files and rerun tests for files that have changed.

[@RobertBrunhage]

@@gorudonu Oh would love to see that as well!

[@hardal7]

please share!

[@erlangparasu6339]

really helpful video thanks

[@Ahmed-yr8wb]

Are you back publishing content again?

[@RobertBrunhage]

Yee back to publishing a bit more of whatever I think is fun to publish. Got a bit burned out before and this is a bit more fun to do!

[@Ahmed-yr8wb]

@@RobertBrunhage oh that's wonderful news, we missed you so much 💕💕💕

[@juanmacias5922]

@@RobertBrunhage yay, hope you find more fun things to share!

[@gorudonu]

You need a debugger with dap. That's what most neovim videos lack

[@RobertBrunhage]

I believe because most people using NeoVim just doesn't use the debugger. When I moved over to NeoVim I just stopped using debuggers all-together. It feels so much smoother to not use it now that I've used both. But I guess that's just personal preference. Flutter devtools always has a debugger though

[@Rockem1234]

How do you run flutter tests from inside nvim? I'm struggling with it :(

[@juanmacias5922]

I love vim commands, I just need to learn to use Harpoon, and nvim for my Flutter development lol

[@RobertBrunhage]

I can't go back, and highly recommend harpoon. I usually work between 1-4 files and just navigating them with keybinds is super powerful!

[@caibouz3526]

Find references is too slow with dartls, did u encounter before?

[@RobertBrunhage]

That's just life, it can be slow in larger projects with more packages. It's the same LSP that vscode uses

[@lowentropyentity]

could you share your dotfiles? the nvim config is a submodule that's either private or deleted

[@RobertBrunhage]

Should be public now

[@hyperiontitan463]

I need this.

[@ifqygifhaazhar8786]

how to use convert stateless to statefull use this nvim?

[@Ask-786]

Great video :). By did you made that code action menu like that. It appears bottom of the window for me. with an option to choose corresponding number .

[@nihalabdulla7282]

How do you debug your code ?

[@Dev_Eli]

Hi, robert. How do you debug your code?

[@RobertBrunhage]

I sprinkle a little print here and then a sprinkle another print there. Worst worst case I use the debugger from the devtools, never found myself needing the debugger though, was usually more pain than help

[@Ematolah]

Hi sir hope you are having a great day sorry to be messaging and commenting and issuing every where for you but i dont understand how i should intergrate this into my own lsp config file

[@_acky]

how can I install Flutter using nvchad and lazy plugin

[@DartMitai]

lsp inlay hints???

[@deadmet21]

how can i setup fvm using this config?

[@redsun9594]

What about breakpoint debugging?

[@RobertBrunhage]

I never use that nowadays but if I need it, the devtools already has a debugger docs.flutter.dev/development/tools/devtools/debugger I've also heard of people setting up github.com/mfussenegger/nvim-dap to get debugging, but as I don't use it I haven't tried

[@redsun9594]

@@RobertBrunhage good stuff, I currently use VSCode vim plugin, but it's really lacking and probably this video is a wakeup call to step up my game, thanks for the amazing content!

[@RobertBrunhage]

@@redsun9594 I used that for quite a while and switching between that and Neovim when I first got started. But once I was able to go full NeoVim neckbeard, I never went back.

[@mikemegalodon2114]

Debugging should be possible using dap

[@HarshKumar-qw5ou]

I edit my files on nvim but use vscode for debugging since it has such a nice debug window with colored logs and everything. Am i the only one who relies so much on that debug console. dap don't even come close to those nice nice colored logs.

[@RobertBrunhage]

I find that I tend to be faster without using debuggers in general with finding the cause of the issue I am having. In general I can't help much there :/

[@codehunter4072]

How to auto format flutter ?

[@RobertBrunhage]

You would setup an autocommand for running dart format. I am a f kind of guy so not used autoformat for almost 3 years.

[@AK-iz3nz]

cool!

[@M-Aisuru]

I'm new to nvim and would like to know how to view errors and see what commands I can use when using control + space in vscode. Like you but in nvim