why does flutter config for web shows like enable-web: true (Unavailable)?

Question

I wanted to develop web application in flutter with the beta support. Thus, I enabled web in flutter config through CLI as below.

$ flutter config --enable-web
WARNING: cgroup v2 is not fully supported yet, proceeding with partial confinement
Setting "enable-web" value to "true".

You may need to restart any open editors for them to read new settings.

As next step in the process of development, I wanted to check if the browser is connected as device with flutter, but it's not

$ flutter devices
WARNING: cgroup v2 is not fully supported yet, proceeding with partial confinement
No devices detected.

Hence, I cross verified the flutter config, it showed the status of web enabled as

$ flutter config
...
Settings:
  enable-web: true (Unavailable)

Why does enable-web show true, but unavailable? How can I connect web browser as device in flutter?

Answer 1

You're currently on the stable channel of flutter. Flutter is only supported on beta and higher releases at the moment. You can change to beta and enable web support with:

flutter channel beta
flutter upgrade
flutter config --enable-web

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