Chapter 53 — Consuming a REST API: HTTP, JSON, and FutureBuilder

Level: intermediate Estimated time: 12 h Prerequisites: Chapter 52 — State management: setState and provider (and, in PART 1A: Chapter 13 — Exceptions, Chapter 15 — Asynchronous programming, Chapter 16 — Project organization, Chapter 17 — JSON) What you will be able to do by the end: fetch data from a server, turn it into Dart objects, display it in a list, and cleanly handle loading, errors, retry, search, and pagination.

53.0 — Chapter objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to: