Flutter Multi Vendor App [2025] Edition

Create a new flutter project, install dependencies, and import constants by copying pubspec.yaml and adding assets, enabling a ready-to-run frontend and backend setup.

Hook screen utils and GetX to build a Flutter app with a bottom navigation bar and a default home, using Get Material App and a design height 825.

Set up the bottom navigation bar as the app entry point, implement the main screen with a scaffold and stack, and apply theme colors and on-tap handling to track navigation.

Gain experience managing a tab index with a GetX controller and an observable int, expose it via getters and setters, and consume it with an Obx-wrapped Scaffold and bottom navigation.

Import flutter vector icons to replace the current icons for the items list. Manually import the icons, troubleshoot missing icons, and apply the Appstore icon as the first option.

Learn to implement a bottom navigation bar that toggles icons by tab index, adds a cart badge, and builds four pages: home, search, cart, and profile.

Define a page list of widgets and implement four tab pages—home, search, cart, and profile—each as stateless widgets with scaffolds, wired to an entry point using a tab index.

Create a custom container widget in Flutter to render the home page tile, as a stateless widget in lib/common, using MediaQuery height and a clip rect with bottom radii.

Design a uniform home page by replacing the app bar with a 130-pixel custom container in a safe area and reuse the scaffold across home, cart, search, and profile.

Create a custom error bar in Flutter as a stateless widget in the common folder, using a row layout, padding, a circular avatar, and reusable text styles.

Fix custom app bar errors in a Flutter multi vendor app by applying the provided Podfile fix, adjusting row alignment, and setting the bar radius for dynamic time.

Add a network background image by providing a URL, then implement a custom app bar time function that uses DateTime.now and hour-based conditions to return appropriate emojis.

Create a custom app bar with time-based emojis from emojipedia and implement a category list widget with static data, preparing for a REST API.

Create a horizontal category list in flutter using a category widget with dynamic data from constants, later replaced by a rest api, and handle tap to show selection.

Create and wire a category controller using the get library to handle on tap events, expose observable category and title with getters and setters, and update values on user selection.

Implement category onTap in a Flutter multi-vendor app using GetX for reactive updates, toggling border color with Obx and navigating to the all categories page with a fade transition.

Explore onTap logic for a category widget in a Flutter multi-vendor app, refactoring into a separate reusable widget, using a GetX controller, and creating a reusable heading widget.

Refactor the category widget on the all categories page by updating the app bar, padding, and list items with circular avatars, network images, and a trailing forward icon.

Design the all categories page and category tile for the Flutter multi vendor app, with a zero-elevation app bar, off-white background, and a list view of category items.

Create a background container as a stateless widget, applying a box decoration with an asset image at 0.7 opacity, top radius, height from constants, and a child for all categories.

Build a reusable heading widget in Flutter, applying padding, a row layout with a text style, and an interactive icon with on tap navigation for the home page headings.

Extend the header widget by building nearby restaurants, fast food, and recommendations pages, adjust cupertino transitions to 900ms, and implement stateless pages with a reusable text widget and app style.

Create nearby restaurants list and foods list as Flutter widgets, hook them to the home page using containers and a list view, and reuse a single widget for dynamic data.

Build a restaurant widget with image, title, time, and rating in Flutter. Use a stateless widget, gesture detector, padding, and a never scrollable list view to display nearby restaurant items.

Design a restaurant widget with a styled title, delivery time row and a five-star rating indicator using flutter_rating_bar, aligned by cross axis and main axis.

Create a food_widget in Flutter by adapting the restaurant widget, declare image, title, time, and price, format to two decimals, and align a row with title and bold price.

Create a reusable nearby restaurant tile in flutter by building a stateless widget with a gesture detector to navigate, a stacked layout, network image, and rating bar indicator.

Learn to build a nearby restaurants list in Flutter multi vendor app by configuring a safe area, a white background container, and a reusable restaurant tile within a scrollable ListView.

Develop a reusable text widget for a nearby restaurant tile, display delivery time, address, and open/closed status using a stack, positioned widgets, and responsive sizing in Flutter.

Create a food tile and two separate foods lists in the recommendations page of a Flutter multi vendor app, wiring data, showing price, and enabling cart actions.

Outline the backend architecture for a Flutter multi vendor app, detailing app and payment servers, Stripe webhooks, MongoDB schemas, and routes for users, addresses, foods, categories, restaurants, and orders.

Initialize a new backend project, install dependencies, and create server.js to run a nodemon-backed Node.js app on port 3000, with folders for controllers, routes, utils, models, and a .env file.

Configure dotenv to load environment variables, set the port from dotenv, and connect to the database using mongoose with the MongoDB URL from dotenv, logging success or errors.

Create a MongoDB Atlas cluster for the Foodlink project, set up access, obtain the connection URI, and wire it into the app’s server, schemas, controllers, and routes.

Implement get all categories and get random categories functions for the Flutter multi vendor app, excluding a specific category and __v, using find and aggregate with appropriate responses.

Implement a category router in express, wiring a category controller to create categories and fetch all and random categories, with protected routes and postman testing.