Will Dart Support Server Side Development?

Are we going to be able to use dart not only on the client/browser, but also on our server? Write some code for a server e.g. Apache, accept browser requests, query a database and

Solution 1:

Short answer yes.

Longer answer. The Dart VM already contains a HTTP chat server example that shows how to use the dart:io HTTP API to implement a web service. In general the dart:io library contains functionality that is meant to be used in server side programming such as sockets and file/directory handling.

Its still very early stage but already now you can play around with some early attempts of implementing connect/node style applications using the Dart SDK.

As for communicating between the client and the server you will have to use classic REST/HTTP mechanisms, but in the future (when reflection is implemented in Dart) you will be able to serialize actual Dart objects and thus share them between the client and server.