Favour composition

We've all been told, everything is a widget.

By combining powerful basic widgets like Surface and Interaction, you can create maintainable custom widgets easily.

• Check out the widget catalogue (opens in a new tab) for basics, form-fields, and much more.
• See the guide on creating reusable widgets (opens in a new tab).

Interaction(
  onTap: () => print('Do something'),
  builder: (context, state) {
    return Surface(
      padding: EdgeInsets.all(
        state.isHovering ? context.spacing.md : context.spacing.sm
      ),
      child: Text('Click me'),
    );
  }
)

Stay flexible

Libraries like Material and Cupertino are fantastic tools but they can be very rigid by design.

With Jolt, anything that can be configurable, is configurable.

• Every widget has a corresponding Style class. This class defines all the configurable properties available.
• The system is designed to allow maximum maintainability, with a clearly defined hierarchy (opens in a new tab).

Prioritise accessibility

When building quickly, we sometimes forget to put labels on buttons or to make sure the text has enough contrast.

You can save your users from squinting by making accessibility easy.

• Semantic properties are readily available for all widgets including the new identifier property to make testing a breeze.
• Jolt has a few tricks with colors to ensure text and backgrounds are always visible and clear.

Look great everywhere

Flutter just about anywhere and between platform differences and screen sizes, responsive design is hard.

Jolt can ease the burden with clever layout widgets and helpful responsive utilities.

• Set your breakpoints and use the Shell and Scaffold widgets to make use of the space available on each platform with ease.
• When you need to make micro-adjustments, use the context.responsive method to make changes at any level of the widget tree.

Move quickly with precision

Building an MVP on the weekend?
Or maybe implementing a large scale app based on a strict design system?

You can now do both with the same library.

• When you need to build quickly, Jolt uses sensible defaults that result in a great looking app with minimal effort.
• When you need control over every shade and every pixel, you can do that too.