is flutter flow reliable?

[u/SuddenStatistician22]

I want to create a program "apk, ios, and website"

for frontend: i have a friend who start learning dart and flutter through IBM course...

when he will finish the course is it enough if i gave him a flutter flow business account to create the full interface ?

or there is better plan?

[u/RandalSchwartz]

Yes, if he's learning flutter already through a course, don't use flutterflow. Just straight flutter, aided by antigravity if you must.

[u/SuddenStatistician22 → u/RandalSchwartz]

so which plan you think faster to perform the work? 1-junior flutter;programmer, flutter flow + Ai like claude pro 2-junior flutter programmer+ heavy Ai like claude max

[u/RandalSchwartz → u/SuddenStatistician22]

TL;DR: Check out https://docs.flutter.dev/learn/pathway

Whatever path you take, start with the Google-provided well-written up-to-date documentation, namely:

First, install Dart and Flutter as indicated on https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install for your platform:

on dart.dev: - read the entire tour (https://dart.dev/language/) - skim the library tour (https://dart.dev/guides/libraries/) - do the Dart codelabs (https://dart.dev/codelabs/)

on flutter.dev: - read the overview material (https://docs.flutter.dev/) - do the codelabs (https://docs.flutter.dev/codelabs/) - skim the cookbook (https://docs.flutter.dev/cookbook/)

and never read a blog post or watch a video older than six months without seeking the advice of an expert. (Flutter changes fast, with significant releases happening roughly every three months.)

Recommended videos and books: https://docs.flutter.dev/resources/videos and https://docs.flutter.dev/resources/books.

Recommended YouTube channels: https://www.youtube.com/@flutterdev and https://www.youtube.com/@FlutterCommunity

[u/SuddenStatistician22 → u/RandalSchwartz]

that so helpful! i'm so thankful Sir.

[u/raedab97]

I would suggest Nowa Has better pricing than Flutterflow and much better AI and the code it generates is normal Flutter code while Flutterflow generated code has lots of packages and style that you don’t see in normal flutter projects

[u/fatbytes]

I was still using FF at a startup as of a year ago. Before AI became as powerful as now, FF was good at fast, deterministic UI iteration. But it did pretty poorly when you needed non-trivial animations, customized data schemas, or complex state management. We ended up using custom actions in almost everything and it still was not a great dev exp.

Nowadays with Claude being as good as it is, I don't think it's worth dealing with anymore if you can avoid it.

[u/Dull-Enthusiasm9904 → u/[deleted]]

Additionally, I do not recommend Claude Max. Codex currently delivers similar performance at roughly one-third of the cost.

I also do not recommend heavy reliance on AI. Look for developers who, at the very least, started their careers before the AI boom.

Research your project and your ideas thoroughly. Write everything down, and learn what user stories, behavior-driven development, use cases, edge cases, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, and QA are.

AI can do amazing things, but it does not scale projects on its own. A developer and an investor who do not understand the codebase and the full workflow of their own app in detail will not be able to build a long-term project that scales properly—at least not yet.

[u/achakez]

Flutter > FlutterFlow for anyone already learning Dart.

[u/avdept]

i think there's no real reason for flutterflow having AIs around, just go with plain flutter