Flutter on Cloud Run: Full Stack Dart Architecture

Flutter is a framework for building mobile, web, and desktop applications from a single codebase.  The language that powers Flutter, Dart, is a compiled language well-suited for backend development as well.

By using Dart for both your frontend and your backend, you enable a full-stack architecture. This provides you with many benefits. You simplify your codebase, you can share logic between client and server, and you can deploy your entire stack to the same container.

Bringing this all together on Cloud Run makes deployment simple. Because it is a fully managed, serverless platform, it handles the infrastructure and scaling for you. You just provide the container, and it takes care of the rest—giving you a secure, production-ready HTTPS URL for your entire stack in minutes.

In this blog post, I'll show how to build and deploy a full-stack Dart application. I'll demonstrate this all with the industry ...