Most applications, especially business applications, need to perform CRUD tasks: Create, Read, Update, or Delete data. In this chapter, we will cover recipes that explain how to perform CRUD operations in Flutter.
There are two ways that data can be persisted – locally and remotely. Regardless of the destination of your data, in many cases, it will need to be transformed into JSON before it can be persisted, so we will begin by talking about the JSON format in Dart and Flutter. This will be helpful for several technologies you might decide to use in your future apps, including SQLite, Sembast, and Firebase databases. These are all based on sending and retrieving JSON data.
This will integrate with our previous discussion on Futures since interacting with data generally requires an asynchronous connection.
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