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Enforces a fixed main() cold-launch order — crash-log sink + FlutterError.onError + PlatformDispatcher.onError installed BEFORE any code that can throw, settings/theme read before runApp so the first frame paints correct, real infra constructed in a composition-root bootstrap() a
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Enforces a fixed main() cold-launch order — crash-log sink + FlutterError.onError + PlatformDispatcher.onError installed BEFORE any code that can throw, settings/theme read before runApp so the first frame paints correct, real infra constructed in a composition-root bootstrap() and injected via ProviderScope overrideWithValue over throwing placeholder providers, non-blocking warm-up deferred to addPostFrameCallback, exactly two error handlers with NO runZonedGuarded, ProviderException unwrapped before logging, and a WidgetsBindingObserver that flushes durable state on background/resume. Use when editing lib/main.dart, main_<flavor>.dart, bootstrap.dart or app.dart, reordering anything in main(), adding a splash/onboarding/permission gate, restoring theme before first paint, wiring a DB or service into ProviderScope, handling app-lifecycle background/resume flushes, or chasing cold-start latency, ANRs, or first-frame jank.
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App startup and bootstrap
main() has one job: install a crash net, read the little state the first frame needs, wire real dependencies into the tree, and hand off to runApp — fast, ordered, and unable to hide a failure. Everything expensive happens after the first frame or off the launch path entirely.
Non-negotiable rules
- Error handlers go first, before anything that can throw. A crash-log sink,
FlutterError.onError, andPlatformDispatcher.instance.onErrorare installed immediately afterWidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized(). The step most likely to throw is opening the DB; installing handlers after it inverts the whole point. - Exactly two error handlers — no zone.
FlutterError.onError(build/layout/paint errors) andPlatformDispatcher.instance.onError(uncaught async errors) cover every path. Never addrunZonedGuarded. The "you need all three" advice is crash-SDK advice (Sentry wraps its init in a zone); with no such SDK a zone buys nothing and costs a documented zone-mismatch footgun. Flutter's own fix for that warning is to remove zones. PlatformDispatcher.onErrorreturnstrueunconditionally. Returningfalseroutes to the embedder fallback, where the process may exit or hang. Get debug-console visibility fromdebugPrintunderkDebugMode, not fromreturn kReleaseMode.- Never let an error handler throw. Wrap its body in a bare
try/catch (_)and keep the comment explaining why the discarded error is deliberate — otherwise someone "fixes" it into infinite recursion inside the handler. - Read settings/theme before
runApp. Palette, text-scale policy, locale, and any first-paint choice are read synchronously (a handful of rows is sub-10ms) so frame one paints correct. A flash of the wrong theme is a visible defect, not a cosmetic one. - Construct real infra in a composition-root
bootstrap(), inject via overrides. Feature code depends on throwing placeholder providers;bootstrap()builds the real DB/services andoverrideWithValues them in the rootProviderScope. A forgotten wiring fails loudly at startup, never returns null. This is also the test seam. - Defer warm-up to
addPostFrameCallback; never await it inmain(). Any plugin/engine warm-up (audio, TTS, first network handshake) runs its cost synchronously on the main thread and produces ANRs on the cold-start path. Fire it best-effort after the first usable frame. - Do not block the first frame. The only launch-path
awaitis the one unavoidable blocker (opening the DB). Show the UI shell immediately rather than a blank window while a migration runs. - Unwrap
ProviderExceptionbefore logging. Riverpod 3 rethrows provider failures wrapped; logging the wrapper hides the real cause and makes every entry readProviderException. - Tune Riverpod retry for the app's failure model. Riverpod 3 retries failing providers by default (~38s of exponential backoff). For a provider whose only failure is a local bug (corrupt DB, missing file), set
retry: (count, error) => nullso it fails immediately and loudly instead of spinning behind a spinner. - Flush durable state on background via one lifecycle observer. Register a single
WidgetsBindingObserverand, indidChangeAppLifecycleState, flush pending writes when the app reachesinactive/paused— the OS can kill a backgrounded app with no further callback — and re-read time-sensitive state onresumed. This is bootstrap's mirror image:bootstrap()restores state on cold launch, the observer persists it before the process can die. Read services in the callback viaref.read(neverwatch).
The sequence
// lib/main.dart — the whole launch path in one readable function (~40 lines).
Future<void> main() async {
// Same function body as runApp(): no zone, so no zone-mismatch warning.
WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
final CrashLog log = await CrashLog.open(); // FIRST: a crash before this is invisible forever.
installErrorHandlers(log);
final deps = await bootstrap(); // the one blocker: open DB, read settings, build services.
runApp(
ProviderScope(
// Local-only failures are real bugs — fail fast, don't retry for ~38s.
retry: (count, error) => null,
overrides: [
appDatabaseProvider.overrideWithValue(deps.db),
settingsRepositoryProvider.overrideWithValue(deps.settings),
notificationGatewayProvider.overrideWithValue(deps.notifications),
],
child: const App(), // flavor-blind, DI-blind widget tree.
),
);
}
WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized()
→ CrashLog.open() first; nothing above may throw unseen
→ FlutterError.onError = … cheap, synchronous
→ PlatformDispatcher.onError = …
→ bootstrap(): open DB (+migration), read settings, build services ← only blocker
→ runApp(ProviderScope(overrides: …, child: App()))
──────────────────────────────────────── FIRST FRAME (UI visible, usable)
→ addPostFrameCallback: unawaited(service.warmUp()) ← never blocks
The two error handlers
void installErrorHandlers(CrashLog log) {
// Errors inside Flutter's build/layout/paint callbacks.
FlutterError.onError = (FlutterErrorDetails details) {
try {
FlutterError.presentError(details);
log.record(details.exceptionAsString(), details.stack);
} catch (_) {
// Never let the error handler throw — do not "fix" this into recursion.
}
};
// Uncaught async errors outside the framework's callbacks.
PlatformDispatcher.instance.onError = (Object error, StackTrace stack) {
try {
log.record(unwrapProviderException(error).toString(), stack); // rule 9
if (kDebugMode) debugPrint('$error\n$stack');
} catch (_) {
// Never let the error handler throw — do not "fix" this into recursion.
}
return true; // ALWAYS true (rule 3).
};
}
The crash sink itself is synchronous (an entry must survive a hard kill, including a crash on frame one), size-bounded, and incapable of throwing. Those bare catch (_) guards deliberately violate "don't discard errors" (rule 4 wins here); the comment is load-bearing.
The composition root
// lib/bootstrap.dart — the ONE place concrete implementations are named.
// Feature code sees only the throwing placeholder providers below.
class AppDeps {
const AppDeps(this.db, this.settings, this.notifications);
final AppDatabase db;
final SettingsRepository settings;
final NotificationGateway notifications;
}
Future<AppDeps> bootstrap() async {
final db = await openAppDatabase(); // plain top-level factory — no Riverpod, isolate-reusable.
final settings = DriftSettingsRepository(db);
await settings.load(); // small read; needed before first paint.
return AppDeps(db, settings, LiveNotificationGateway());
}
// lib/providers.dart — placeholders throw until bootstrap() overrides them.
final appDatabaseProvider =
Provider<AppDatabase>((ref) => throw UnimplementedError('override in bootstrap()'));
final settingsRepositoryProvider =
Provider<SettingsRepository>((ref) => throw UnimplementedError('override in bootstrap()'));
final notificationGatewayProvider =
Provider<NotificationGateway>((ref) => throw UnimplementedError('override in bootstrap()'));
The widget tree (App) imports no concrete implementation and reads no flavor flag. Multiple entrypoints (main_dev.dart, main_prod.dart, a per-store flavor) share one App and one placeholder-provider list; only the overrides in bootstrap() differ, so the mains stay diff-able line-for-line. Tests reuse the identical seam by overriding the same providers with fakes or an in-memory DB — no live main() runs.
Deferred warm-up
// In App's (or the first screen's) initState — NOT in main().
@override
void initState() {
super.initState();
WidgetsBinding.instance.addPostFrameCallback((_) {
unawaited(ref.read(someServiceProvider).warmUp()); // best-effort; UI already usable
});
}
Warm-up policy and its failure policy are opposites by design: a failed warm-up costs a little latency on first use and may stay silent; the real operation it warms must fail loudly when it fails. Do not collapse the two.
App lifecycle: flush on background
// The SAME State that owns deferred warm-up also owns the lifecycle observer.
class _AppState extends ConsumerState<App> with WidgetsBindingObserver {
@override
void initState() {
super.initState();
WidgetsBinding.instance.addObserver(this);
}
@override
void dispose() {
WidgetsBinding.instance.removeObserver(this);
super.dispose();
}
@override
void didChangeAppLifecycleState(AppLifecycleState state) {
switch (state) {
case AppLifecycleState.inactive:
case AppLifecycleState.paused:
unawaited(ref.read(settingsRepositoryProvider).flush()); // may never resume
case AppLifecycleState.resumed:
ref.read(clockSensitiveProvider.notifier).refresh(); // re-read time-sensitive state
case AppLifecycleState.detached:
case AppLifecycleState.hidden:
break;
}
}
}
One observer, registered once, removed in dispose. Do not scatter didChangeAppLifecycleState across feature widgets — features expose a flush() on their repository/notifier and the root observer calls it. Anything time-sensitive re-reads through clockProvider (see service-boundary-and-native), never DateTime.now().
The one blocker: opening the DB
Reading a dozen settings rows is trivial and safe to await. The genuine risk is a schema migration on the first launch after an update — unbounded work between the user and the app. The rule is not "make migration fast"; it is paint the UI shell immediately instead of a blank window, and take a pre-migration snapshot so a bad migration is recoverable. See run-migration for the migration ritual and persistence-drift for the connection setup.
Anti-patterns
runZonedGuardedwrappingrunApp— buys a zone-mismatch warning and nothing else without a crash SDK; the two handlers already cover every path.await service.warmUp()inmain()— synchronous binder/IPC cost on the main thread → ANR on cold start.- Reading theme/locale after
runApp— guarantees a first frame in the wrong theme, then a visible flip. get_it/injectable/MultiProvideras a second DI container — theProviderScopeoverrides already are the DI; a parallel container is a second source of truth.- Returning
falsefromPlatformDispatcher.onError— hands control to the embedder fallback that may kill or hang the process. - A splash screen, onboarding carousel, or launch-time modal on the critical path — every one delays the first usable frame; gate them behind an explicit product decision, never add them by reflex.
- **Logging th
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name: app-startup-and-bootstrap description: Enforces a fixed main() cold-launch order — crash-log sink + FlutterError.onError + PlatformDispatcher.onError installed BEFORE any code that can throw, settings/theme read before runApp so the first frame paints correct, real infra constructed in a composition-root bootstrap() and injected via ProviderScope overrideWithValue over throwing placeholder providers, non-blocking warm-up deferred to addPostFrameCallback, exactly two error handlers with NO runZonedGuarded, ProviderException unwrapped before logging, and a WidgetsBindingObserver that flushes durable state on background/resume. Use when editing lib/main.dart, main_<flavor>.dart, bootstrap.dart or app.dart, reordering anything in main(), adding a splash/onboarding/permission gate, restoring theme before first paint, wiring a DB or service into ProviderScope, handling app-lifecycle background/resume flushes, or chasing cold-start latency, ANRs, or first-frame jank.
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name: app-startup-and-bootstrap
description: Enforces a fixed main() cold-launch order — crash-log sink + FlutterError.onError + PlatformDispatcher.onError installed BEFORE any code that can throw, settings/theme read before runApp so the first frame paints correct, real infra constructed in a composition-root bootstrap() and injected via ProviderScope overrideWithValue over throwing placeholder providers, non-blocking warm-up deferred to addPostFrameCallback, exactly two error handlers with NO runZonedGuarded, ProviderException unwrapped before logging, and a WidgetsBindingObserver that flushes durable state on background/resume. Use when editing lib/main.dart, main_<flavor>.dart, bootstrap.dart or app.dart, reordering anything in main(), adding a splash/onboarding/permission gate, restoring theme before first paint, wiring a DB or service into ProviderScope, handling app-lifecycle background/resume flushes, or chasing cold-start latency, ANRs, or first-frame jank.
---
# App startup and bootstrap
`main()` has one job: install a crash net, read the little state the first frame needs, wire real dependencies into the tree, and hand off to `runApp` — fast, ordered, and unable to hide a failure. Everything expensive happens after the first frame or off the launch path entirely.
## Non-negotiable rules
1. **Error handlers go first, before anything that can throw.** A crash-log sink, `FlutterError.onError`, and `PlatformDispatcher.instance.onError` are installed immediately after `WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized()`. The step most likely to throw is opening the DB; installing handlers after it inverts the whole point.
2. **Exactly two error handlers — no zone.** `FlutterError.onError` (build/layout/paint errors) and `PlatformDispatcher.instance.onError` (uncaught async errors) cover every path. **Never add `runZonedGuarded`.** The "you need all three" advice is crash-SDK advice (Sentry wraps its init in a zone); with no such SDK a zone buys nothing and costs a documented zone-mismatch footgun. Flutter's own fix for that warning is to remove zones.
3. **`PlatformDispatcher.onError` returns `true` unconditionally.** Returning `false` routes to the embedder fallback, where the process may exit or hang. Get debug-console visibility from `debugPrint` under `kDebugMode`, not from `return kReleaseMode`.
4. **Never let an error handler throw.** Wrap its body in a bare `try/catch (_)` and keep the comment explaining why the discarded error is deliberate — otherwise someone "fixes" it into infinite recursion inside the handler.
5. **Read settings/theme before `runApp`.** Palette, text-scale policy, locale, and any first-paint choice are read synchronously (a handful of rows is sub-10ms) so frame one paints correct. A flash of the wrong theme is a visible defect, not a cosmetic one.
6. **Construct real infra in a composition-root `bootstrap()`, inject via overrides.** Feature code depends on **throwing placeholder providers**; `bootstrap()` builds the real DB/services and `overrideWithValue`s them in the root `ProviderScope`. A forgotten wiring fails loudly at startup, never returns null. This is also the test seam.
7. **Defer warm-up to `addPostFrameCallback`; never await it in `main()`.** Any plugin/engine warm-up (audio, TTS, first network handshake) runs its cost synchronously on the main thread and produces ANRs on the cold-start path. Fire it best-effort after the first usable frame.
8. **Do not block the first frame.** The only launch-path `await` is the one unavoidable blocker (opening the DB). Show the UI shell immediately rather than a blank window while a migration runs.
9. **Unwrap `ProviderException` before logging.** Riverpod 3 rethrows provider failures wrapped; logging the wrapper hides the real cause and makes every entry read `ProviderException`.
10. **Tune Riverpod retry for the app's failure model.** Riverpod 3 retries failing providers by default (~38s of exponential backoff). For a provider whose only failure is a local bug (corrupt DB, missing file), set `retry: (count, error) => null` so it fails immediately and loudly instead of spinning behind a spinner.
11. **Flush durable state on background via one lifecycle observer.** Register a single `WidgetsBindingObserver` and, in `didChangeAppLifecycleState`, flush pending writes when the app reaches `inactive`/`paused` — the OS can kill a backgrounded app with no further callback — and re-read time-sensitive state on `resumed`. This is bootstrap's mirror image: `bootstrap()` restores state on cold launch, the observer persists it before the process can die. Read services in the callback via `ref.read` (never `watch`).
## The sequence
```dart
// lib/main.dart — the whole launch path in one readable function (~40 lines).
Future<void> main() async {
// Same function body as runApp(): no zone, so no zone-mismatch warning.
WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
final CrashLog log = await CrashLog.open(); // FIRST: a crash before this is invisible forever.
installErrorHandlers(log);
final deps = await bootstrap(); // the one blocker: open DB, read settings, build services.
runApp(
ProviderScope(
// Local-only failures are real bugs — fail fast, don't retry for ~38s.
retry: (count, error) => null,
overrides: [
appDatabaseProvider.overrideWithValue(deps.db),
settingsRepositoryProvider.overrideWithValue(deps.settings),
notificationGatewayProvider.overrideWithValue(deps.notifications),
],
child: const App(), // flavor-blind, DI-blind widget tree.
),
);
}
```
```
WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized()
→ CrashLog.open() first; nothing above may throw unseen
→ FlutterError.onError = … cheap, synchronous
→ PlatformDispatcher.onError = …
→ bootstrap(): open DB (+migration), read settings, build services ← only blocker
→ runApp(ProviderScope(overrides: …, child: App()))
──────────────────────────────────────── FIRST FRAME (UI visible, usable)
→ addPostFrameCallback: unawaited(service.warmUp()) ← never blocks
```
## The two error handlers
```dart
void installErrorHandlers(CrashLog log) {
// Errors inside Flutter's build/layout/paint callbacks.
FlutterError.onError = (FlutterErrorDetails details) {
try {
FlutterError.presentError(details);
log.record(details.exceptionAsString(), details.stack);
} catch (_) {
// Never let the error handler throw — do not "fix" this into recursion.
}
};
// Uncaught async errors outside the framework's callbacks.
PlatformDispatcher.instance.onError = (Object error, StackTrace stack) {
try {
log.record(unwrapProviderException(error).toString(), stack); // rule 9
if (kDebugMode) debugPrint('$error\n$stack');
} catch (_) {
// Never let the error handler throw — do not "fix" this into recursion.
}
return true; // ALWAYS true (rule 3).
};
}
```
The crash sink itself is synchronous (an entry must survive a hard kill, including a crash on frame one), size-bounded, and incapable of throwing. Those bare `catch (_)` guards deliberately violate *"don't discard errors"* (rule 4 wins here); the comment is load-bearing.
## The composition root
```dart
// lib/bootstrap.dart — the ONE place concrete implementations are named.
// Feature code sees only the throwing placeholder providers below.
class AppDeps {
const AppDeps(this.db, this.settings, this.notifications);
final AppDatabase db;
final SettingsRepository settings;
final NotificationGateway notifications;
}
Future<AppDeps> bootstrap() async {
final db = await openAppDatabase(); // plain top-level factory — no Riverpod, isolate-reusable.
final settings = DriftSettingsRepository(db);
await settings.load(); // small read; needed before first paint.
return AppDeps(db, settings, LiveNotificationGateway());
}
```
```dart
// lib/providers.dart — placeholders throw until bootstrap() overrides them.
final appDatabaseProvider =
Provider<AppDatabase>((ref) => throw UnimplementedError('override in bootstrap()'));
final settingsRepositoryProvider =
Provider<SettingsRepository>((ref) => throw UnimplementedError('override in bootstrap()'));
final notificationGatewayProvider =
Provider<NotificationGateway>((ref) => throw UnimplementedError('override in bootstrap()'));
```
The widget tree (`App`) imports no concrete implementation and reads no flavor flag. Multiple entrypoints (`main_dev.dart`, `main_prod.dart`, a per-store flavor) share one `App` and one placeholder-provider list; only the overrides in `bootstrap()` differ, so the mains stay diff-able line-for-line. Tests reuse the identical seam by overriding the same providers with fakes or an in-memory DB — no live `main()` runs.
## Deferred warm-up
```dart
// In App's (or the first screen's) initState — NOT in main().
@override
void initState() {
super.initState();
WidgetsBinding.instance.addPostFrameCallback((_) {
unawaited(ref.read(someServiceProvider).warmUp()); // best-effort; UI already usable
});
}
```
Warm-up policy and its failure policy are opposites by design: a failed warm-up costs a little latency on first use and may stay silent; the real operation it warms must fail **loudly** when it fails. Do not collapse the two.
## App lifecycle: flush on background
```dart
// The SAME State that owns deferred warm-up also owns the lifecycle observer.
class _AppState extends ConsumerState<App> with WidgetsBindingObserver {
@override
void initState() {
super.initState();
WidgetsBinding.instance.addObserver(this);
}
@override
void dispose() {
WidgetsBinding.instance.removeObserver(this);
super.dispose();
}
@override
void didChangeAppLifecycleState(AppLifecycleState state) {
switch (state) {
case AppLifecycleState.inactive:
case AppLifecycleState.paused:
unawaited(ref.read(settingsRepositoryProvider).flush()); // may never resume
case AppLifecycleState.resumed:
ref.read(clockSensitiveProvider.notifier).refresh(); // re-read time-sensitive state
case AppLifecycleState.detached:
case AppLifecycleState.hidden:
break;
}
}
}
```
One observer, registered once, removed in `dispose`. Do not scatter `didChangeAppLifecycleState` across feature widgets — features expose a `flush()` on their repository/notifier and the root observer calls it. Anything time-sensitive re-reads through `clockProvider` (see `service-boundary-and-native`), never `DateTime.now()`.
## The one blocker: opening the DB
Reading a dozen settings rows is trivial and safe to `await`. The genuine risk is a **schema migration** on the first launch after an update — unbounded work between the user and the app. The rule is not "make migration fast"; it is **paint the UI shell immediately instead of a blank window**, and take a pre-migration snapshot so a bad migration is recoverable. See `run-migration` for the migration ritual and `persistence-drift` for the connection setup.
## Anti-patterns
- **`runZonedGuarded` wrapping `runApp`** — buys a zone-mismatch warning and nothing else without a crash SDK; the two handlers already cover every path.
- **`await service.warmUp()` in `main()`** — synchronous binder/IPC cost on the main thread → ANR on cold start.
- **Reading theme/locale after `runApp`** — guarantees a first frame in the wrong theme, then a visible flip.
- **`get_it` / `injectable` / `MultiProvider` as a second DI container** — the `ProviderScope` overrides already are the DI; a parallel container is a second source of truth.
- **Returning `false` from `PlatformDispatcher.onError`** — hands control to the embedder fallback that may kill or hang the process.
- **A splash screen, onboarding carousel, or launch-time modal on the critical path** — every one delays the first usable frame; gate them behind an explicit product decision, never add them by reflex.
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