Dart Development Guide in VS Code

I recently started working with Flutter and chose VS Code as my primary editor. Here’s the tooling stack and setup notes.

Tools

• VS Code — editor
  • Install the Dart extension and the Flutter extension.
• FVM — Dart/Flutter version manager.
• Android Studio — emulator + SDK manager.

Tips for the Dart Extension

• After editing pubspec.yaml, VS Code generally runs pub get automatically. For Git dependencies, trigger Pub: Upgrade Packages manually instead of deleting the lock file.
• The extension resolves the Dart SDK in this order: explicit SDK path in settings, then the global PATH (e.g., fvm global).