The Dart SDK contains dart:io and other libraries that provide low-level command-line & server APIs.
SDK libraries
The Dart SDK contains dart:io and other libraries that provide low-level web APIs.
- The dart:io section of the library tour
- An example-driven tour of using the dart:io library. Topics include working with files & directories, and making & handling HTTP requests.
- dart:io API reference
- Complete reference documentation for the dart:io library.
Community packages
The pub.dev site doesn’t currently support limiting your search to packages that support command-line and server apps. You can, however, search for words that describe the functionality you need.
Command-line packages
Command-line apps often use the following packages,
in addition to general-purpose packages such as archive, intl, and yaml:
| Package | Description |
| args | Parses raw command-line arguments into a set of options and values. |
| cli_util | Provides utilities for building command-line apps. |
| completion | Adds command-line completion to apps that use the args package. |
| path | Provides comprehensive, cross-platform operations for manipulating paths. |
| usage | Wraps Google Analytics. |
Server packages
Server apps can choose from many packages, in addition to
the packages listed in the previous table
and general-purpose packages such as logging:
| Package | Description |
| appengine | Provides support for running server applications written in Dart on Google App Engine using Custom Runtimes with Flex Environment. |
| aqueduct | Supports building scalable REST APIs that run on the Dart VM. |
| angel_framework | A high-powered HTTP server with support for dependency injection & sophisticated routing. |
| crypto | Implements cryptographic hashing functions for algorithms such as SHA-1, SHA-256, MD5, and HMAC. |
| grpc | Implements gRPC, a high performance, open source, general RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first. |
| http_multi_server | Extends the dart:io HttpServer class with support for multiple servers. |
| http_server | Provides utility classes that work with HttpServer to serve web content. |
| shelf | Provides a model for web server middleware that encourages composition and easy reuse. |