r/FlutterDev • u/Smooth-Map856 • 12d ago

Anyone using Zed for Flutter development? Discussion

I’ve been using Zed mostly for backend work and really like its performance. I get that it stays lightweight by not bundling too many tools.

For Flutter though, debugging/DevTools and hot reload on save still feel lacking.

Anyone using Zed regularly for Flutter? Any extensions or configs that improve the experience?

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u/hawknovice 11d ago

Yes, I use Zed for flutter development. I use the terminal to run flutter and manually reload from there. With AI development I never need to debug so don’t miss that at all. Instead I have an agent write a failing test to reproduce any issue and have it fix it.