Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The dart:io package is important for the server side."

A block of code is set as follows:

try {
  throw new Exception("We have a problem!");
} catch (exception, stackTrace) {
  log.severe("Something really bad.", exception, stackTrace);
}

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: " Refresh the web browser again and the most recent post on Chicken Facts will have gone."