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The following tools support the Dart language on all platforms.

• DartPad
• IDEs and editors
• Command-line tools

DartPad is a great, no-download-required way to learn Dart syntax and to experiment with Dart language features. It supports Dart's core libraries, except for VM libraries such asdart:io.

Dart plugins exist for these commonly used IDEs.

• Android Studio
• IntelliJ IDEA
  (and other JetBrains IDEs)
• Visual Studio Code

The following Dart plugins are also available, thanks to the Dart community.

• Emacs
• Vim
• Eclipse

ALanguage Server Protocol implementation is also available forLSP-capable editors that don't have specific Dart extensions.

The Dart SDK includes the following general-purposedart tool:

dart

A command-line interface (CLI) for creating, formatting, analyzing, testing, documenting, compiling, and running Dart code, as well as working with thepub package manager.

Dart DevTools

A suite of debugging and performance tools.

The following tool supports developing web apps:

webdev

A CLI to build and serve Dart web apps.

The following tools support developing or running command-line apps and servers:

dart run

Use thedart run command to run uncompiled Dart command-line apps and some kinds of snapshots.

dartaotruntime

Use this Dart runtime to run AOT snapshots.