screwdriver

Screwdriver

A dart package aiming to provide useful extensions and helper functions to ease and speed up development.

• 📋 Well Documented
• ⚔️ Fully Tested
• 👌 Follows Code Quality Guidelines
• 🦾 Production Ready
• collection included for extra extensions.

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Check out EXTENSIONS.md for a complete list of all the available extensions.

Extensions:                    322
Extension Types:               4
Helper Classes:                5
Helper Functions & Getters:    29
Typedefs:                      10
Mixins:                        2

Last Updated: Fri, Aug 28, 2026 - 04:14 PM

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To checkout all the available extensions, helper functions & classes, see documentation.

Installation

1. Add as a dependency in your project's pub spec.yaml.

dependencies:
  screwdriver: <latest_version>

Note: Screwdriver exports collection package as well. So, you don't need to add collection as a dependency in your project.

2. Import library into your code.

import 'package:screwdriver/screwdriver.dart';

3. Use this import for using IO extensions.

import 'package:screwdriver/screwdriver_io.dart';

A Glimpse of Screwdriver

String

'hello'.capitalized; // Hello
'   '.isBlankl // true;
'45'.toIntOrNull(); // 45
'html'.wrap('<','>'); // <html>
'1010111010001'.isBinary; // true
'test@example.com'.isEmail; // true
'abcd'.reversed; // dcba
'This is a test'.words; // ['this', 'is', 'a', 'test']
'{"name":"John"}'.parseJson(); // map: {name:John}
'#hello'.removePrefix('#'); // hello

Map

final Map<String, dynamic> map = {
  'name': 'John',
  'age': 24,
};

for(final (key, value) in map.records) {
  print('$key: $value');
}

Int

20.isDivisibleBy(5); // true
0.asBool; // false
6.twoDigits; // '06'
2020.isLeapYear; // true
10.repeat((count) => print(count));

DateTime & Duration

now().isMonday;
final DateTime fiveDaysAgo = 5.daysAgo;
final Duration nineMinutes = 9.minutes;
45.minutes.isInHours; // false
15.daysAgo < 5.days.ago; // true
20.minutes.ago >= 50.minutes.ago; // true
now().previousDay; // yesterday
10.days.ago.isBetween(15.days.ago, now()); // true

Double and Bool

randomDouble(max: 50); // random double value between 0 and 50
56.0.isWhole; // true
true.toggled; // false
false.toInt(); // 0

Scope Functions

final User user = User(name: 'John').apply((user){
  user.age = 24;
  user.email = 'john@doe.com';
});
final String age = user.run((u)=> (u.age + 20).toString());

Collections

users << User(name: 'John'); // appends user to users list
users.firstOrNull;
users.drop(5);
users.takeLast(3);
user.all((u) => u.age > 18); // returns bool
cars.groupBy((car) => car.color);
cars.count((car) => car.isPorsche);
cars.random();
cars.maxBy((car) => car.price);
cars.intersect(otherCars);
{'name': 'John'} << Pair('email','john@doe.com');

Future

postDelayed(2000,(){
  print('after 2 seconds');
});

IO

file.onModified(() => print('file modified'));
file.clear(); // flushes all the data of file
file.isEmpty;
file.appendString('hello');
file << 'some text';
file1 + file2; // appends file2 content at the end of file1

Some More

check(divider != 0);
runCaching((){
  count / 0;
});
TODO('find a way to implement this properly'); // throws UnimplementedError on invocation
Triple(45,true, 'Hello World');
user.takeIf((u) => u.age > 18)?.allowAccess();
person.takeUnless((p) => p > 18)?.areTeenagers();
final DateTime date = tomorrow;
yesterday.isInDecember;

Check out EXTENSIONS.md for a complete list of all the available extensions.

Checkout documentation for more details.

Features and bugs

Please file feature requests and bugs at the issue tracker.

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License

Copyright (c) 2020, Birju Vachhani
All rights reserved.

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