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Use Dust From Server to Mobile

Dust tutorial showing a server signup endpoint and Flutter mobile signup client flow

Flutter’s current full-stack developer series is a useful frame for Dust.

The interesting part is not one screen. It is the path from a mobile form to a server endpoint and back to UI state.

Dust can help on both sides.

On the server, dust_server gives you routing, request extraction, responses, middleware, and serving. It is beta and runtime-only today.

On the mobile side, Dust codegen can handle the repeated app glue: validation, JSON, HTTP clients, and ViewModel state.

A signup flow is a good example. The server accepts a validated request body. The Flutter app validates the same shape before submit, sends it through a generated client, and reacts through state or an effect.

That is the full-stack story Dust should grow into: one Dart codebase style, server runtime where it fits, mobile codegen where repetition starts.

Docs used: Server runtime, Server tutorial, Validation, HTTP Clients, and State Management.

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