Dart/Flutter library to communicate with a Directus server over the REST API

[bleak sail]

https://github.com/maxbritto/directus_api_manager
Edit: Now available on pub.dev 🎉
https://pub.dev/packages/directus_api_manager

I've created this lib to use internally on many Flutter project I was working on.
But I'm also a Teacher at https://www.purplegiraffe.fr where I teach about Flutter and Directus ; therefore many of my students were requesting help to communicate with their Directus instance.
I decided to open-source this lib and some of my students started to contribute nice features on it.

Main features are :

• Authentication management with automatic token refresh and the possibility to save restore tokens
• Create one class per collection en enjoy automatic parsing and url building
• One DirectusApiManager class with most of the useful functions
• Support for CRUD over each collection
• Support for websockets
• Local caching engine to limit the number of request to the directus instance
• Helper classes for filters and sort properties
• Support for File uploads
• Automated tests

What should be improved :

• Documentation should be enough to get started but advanced features needs more love on that part

I hope you'll find it useful.

Happy Coding!

[obtuse kraken]

@bleak sail This looks really great, its good that you have added documentation & test cases. 🫡

[bleak sail]

Thanks @obtuse kraken ! I always use tests whenever I can, in my apps and libs. The docs I added them later because I open sourced it to give it to my online students at Purple Giraffe. Without docs, thi kind of libs is barely usable. It does lack a lot of documentation to be honest to take advantage of all the features, but at least one can start using it with a clear path 🙂

[obtuse kraken]

I completely agree on this. 💯