Your app deservers its own CLI: Try sidekick
summary
Sidekick generates a self‑executing CLI for Flutter/Dart projects that embeds a Dart runtime, provides a bash entry that auto‑downloads and auto‑compiles on change, and ships built‑in commands (dart, flutter, deps) so CI and dev machines use the exact pinned SDK. It adds a plugin system that installs packages from pub, runs an install.dart script, and injects command registration using the Dart analyzer. The generated CLI compiles in about five seconds and runs the commands successfully.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and motivation
- 2:36Problems with bash and Gradle
- 5:04Introducing Sidekick CLI
- 8:15Creating a Sidekick CLI
- 10:23Sidekick CLI structure
- 12:09Writing custom commands
- 13:35Sidekick plugin system
- 17:54Conclusion and call to action
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