A year of Flutter Community

A look back at the first year of the Flutter Community by Nash Ramdial and Jay (Jeroen) Meijer

The idea for Flutter Community was simple; create a place that users can visit to find the latest packages and articles written by Flutter developers from around the world. With this goal in mind, we set out to make it a reality. First, our GitHub organization was created by Simon Lightfoot (The Flutter Whisperer) and Jeroen Meijer. This was quickly followed by the Flutter Community Medium Publication, maintained by Nash Ramdial and Scott Stoll.

From the very beginning, there was a lot of enthusiasm from the wider community about the idea. Articles and packages slowly began filling Flutter community from 3rd party developers all over the world. As the months progressed we slowly grew from an average of one article per week to two articles each day. Popular posts such as “Flutter on desktop, a real competitor to Electron” by Norbert, “Flutter Layout Cheat Sheet” by Tomek Polański, and “Parsing complex JSON in Flutter” by Pooja Bhaumik were all published on Flutter Community Medium.

On the GitHub side of things, packages such as “flutter_downloader” by Hung HD, Flutter Launcher Icons by Mark O’Sullivan and “responsive_scaffold” by Rody Davis all found their homes on our GitHub.

As Jay Meijer, the primary maintainer of Flutter Community GitHub said,

“I’m very happy with how the GitHub turned out. We’ve already had a load of packages submitted that are now hosted by Flutter Community. Multiple people have become maintainers of packages that would have otherwise died out, which is one of the most important things we wanted to achieve with the organization. Going forward, we’d like to be more clear to our users on how to submit their packages and what our guidelines are, so we can make Flutter Community’s packages easier to use and a better place for package maintainers and users alike. Thank you to all the contributors and maintainers. It’s awesome to see people work together.”

Today, there are 22 packages under the Flutter Community GitHub and over 360+ articles published under our publication. In addition to this, we have 17K+ followers on Medium, 4000+ on Twitter and, on any given day, there are at least 10K unique daily visitors and over 1 million minutes read per month on Medium.

Number of minutes read per month on Flutter Community