Web Hosting Flutter Apps

Flutter is an open-source software development kit that enables developers to build stunning native applications for iOS, Android, and web with one code base. However, if you have an outstanding Flutter web app you want to showcase to the world via Firebase then web hosting might be required in order for it to remain accessible – Flutter already offers this built-in solution!

Firebase provides the quickest and simplest way to bring your Flutter web app online quickly and securely, freeing you to focus on its design and functionality instead of infrastructure management.

To deploy your web app to Firebase, run the command flutter build web before uploading it with Firebase Deploy. When completed, access your app at its given URL; if your public directory was set as build/web, Flutter will place files here automatically.

Flutter Web should not be used for websites with text-rich flow-based content, like blogs. Such sites have difficulty with SEO as Flutter only sends minimal HTML pages out for indexing purposes by search engines. Furthermore, Flutter controls scrolling physics differently from your typical browser interface.

Hot reload doesn’t work with web apps like Flutter mobile; to see changes you must either manually refresh the browser or use flutter run -d chrome, which launches your app running within the Chrome browser.