Aprende Organizing Files and Folders in Flutter Projects | Writing Clean Dart for Scalable Flutter Apps

When building Flutter apps, adopting a clear file and folder structure from the start makes your codebase easier to navigate and maintain as your project grows. A recommended approach is to keep your project organized by grouping related files together, either by their feature or by their type. This helps you and your team quickly find, understand, and modify code without confusion.

A typical Flutter project structure might look like this:

lib/: Main directory for your Dart source files;
lib/main.dart: The entry point of your app;
lib/features/: Contains folders for each major feature or section of your app;
lib/common/: Holds shared utilities, widgets, or themes used across features.

Inside each feature folder, you might have subfolders for widgets, models, and business logic related to that feature.

lib/main.dart

lib/features/auth/auth_screen.dart

lib/features/home/home_screen.dart

lib/common/theme.dart


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import 'features/auth/auth_screen.dart';
import 'features/home/home_screen.dart';

void main() {
  // App entry point
}

You can choose to organize your files by feature—where each folder contains everything for a specific feature, such as UI, logic, and data classes—or by type, where files are grouped by their role, such as all models in one folder, all screens in another, and so on. Organizing by feature is often preferred for larger apps, as it keeps related code together and makes scaling easier.

lib/features/profile/profile_screen.dart


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import '../../common/theme.dart';

class ProfileScreen {
  void showTheme() {
    print(appTheme);
  }
}

Note

Consistent file and folder organization is crucial for scalability. It helps new developers onboard quickly, reduces merge conflicts, and keeps your project maintainable as it grows.

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