dart: The Dart command-line tool

The dart tool is the command-line interface to the Dart SDK. The tool is available no matter how you get the Dart SDK—whether you download the Dart SDK explicitly or download only the Flutter SDK.

Here's how you might use the dart tool to create, analyze, test, and run an app:

$ dart create -t console my_app
$ cd my_app
$ dart analyze
$ dart test
$ dart run bin/my_app.dart

You can also run pub commands using the dart tool:

$ dart pub get
$ dart pub outdated
$ dart pub upgrade

The following table shows which commands you can use with the dart tool.

To get help with any of the commands, run dart help <command>. You can also get details on pub commands.

$ dart help pub outdated