Fernando Trigoso

I discovered a hidden gem in the Flutter ecosystem this week 💎 Monarch is a developer tool for building Flutter widgets in isolation and its incredibly easy to start using. 1. Write your stories (just widgets) 2. Run Monarch 3. Tweak and debug Add your onboarding pages, error messages, modals, and just about any other widget you want to quickly iterate on and Monarch lets you see it immediately. Benefits 🪲 Find bugs fast 🍋 Easily test hard to reach UI states (loading screens, one-time welcome messages, edge cases) 📈 Boost your widget test coverage (all Monarch stories can be reused in tests) 🔥 Iterate with hot reload Start Coding Declaratively The biggest benefit of Monarch is that it will indirectly make you write better Flutter code. To write better stories, you'll naturally start making your widget cdoe more "declarative". The official Flutter docs also have an page called "Start Thinking Declaratively" that speaks to this point. Get Started Monarch is open source and available on pub. dev so give it a try! Since I learned about it at the DC Flutter meetup this past Wednesday, I've set it up in 3 apps and found a handful of bugs that would have been tough to find before.

Yesterday I shared an idea to support Ukraine by booking rooms for rent on AirBNB. 24 hours later, 100's of people are booking AirBnBs in Ukraine as a way to send immediate monetary assistance to people in hard-hit areas. The messages in response from the hosts are so moving