Effective CI for Dart & Flutter

When you push code, the CI pipeline automatically validates it against lint rules, enforces formatting, runs tests and builds the application.

This guide covers best practices and optimization techniques for efficient Flutter CI pipelines. This example uses GitLab for CI configuration, but most other Git providers offer similar features. This guide is about CI part with focus on monorepo projects.

Outline

1. Introduction
2. Install Flutter on Runner
3. Prepare Stage
   1. Caching Dependencies
4. Lint Stage
   1. Handle Deprecations
   2. Code Quality Reports
5. Test Stage
   1. Collect Coverage Reports
1. Tests Sharding
6. Build Stage