Dart & Flutter library to communicate with a Directus REST API

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I’ve created this lib to use internally on many Flutter project I was working on.
But I’m also a Teacher at https://www.purplegiraffe.fr/ where I teach about Flutter and Directus ; therefore many of my students were requesting help to communicate with their Directus instance.

I decided to open-source this lib and some of my students started to contribute nice features on it. Main features are :

  • Authentication management with automatic token refresh and the possibility to save restore tokens,
  • Create one class per collection en enjoy automatic parsing and url building,
  • One DirectusApiManager class with most of the useful functions,
  • Support for CRUD over each collection,
  • Support for websockets,
  • Local caching engine to limit the number of request to the directus instance,
  • Helper classes for filters and sort properties,
  • Support for File uploads,
  • Automated tests,

What should be improved :

  • Documentation should be enough to get started but advanced features needs more love on that part,

Sources : GitHub - maxbritto/directus_api_manager: Dart & Flutter library to communicate with a Directus REST API

I hope you’ll find it useful.
Happy Coding!

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