Add DartPad to Flutter devtools

[melWiss]

Use case

Sometimes I'd like to try something quickly on my laptop so I don't need a fully blown IDE to do that, a simple one like Dartpad will do the trick, but it would be better to run Dartpad directly on my laptop instead on visiting dartpad.dev because sometimes I have this internet connectivity issue so it won't be a great experience if I visit dartpad on the web.

Proposal

Add Dartpad directly to Flutter devtools, I believe it would boost the Flutter development productivity just a little bit, but it may be very helpful.

[TahaTesser]

Hi @melWiss
Thanks for filing the issue!

but it would be better to run Dartpad directly on my laptop instead on visiting dartpad.dev because sometimes I have this internet connectivity issue so it won't be a great experience if I visit dartpad on the web

devtools is launched when running the app in IDE or command to debug app widget tree, performance etc so I am not sure this fits your proposal as you described above.

I take it that you mean Flutter development tools? Can you please clarify

[melWiss]

I mean another way to code and debug your Flutter app, some sort of IDE but it is embedded inside the devtools itself, I thought maybe a modified version of Dartpad will do the trick.
This feature isn't critical but maybe it can help with the low powered machines users to experience and play with Flutter, imagine launching the Flutter app from the terminal targeting the web platform and then you can simply access to devtools and change some code directly from there and you can visualize the changes directly from there.

[huycozy]

@melWiss This issue is more suited to devtools repository rather than Flutter framework. Transferring the issue for better support there.

[kenzieschmoll]

This feature request should actually live in the dart-pad repository, since the work to support this would likely be more on the dart-pad side than in DevTools. I am closing this and I filed a tracking issue there: dart-lang/dart-pad#3048