The change to null safety in Dart is a good thing, however a common pattern I used firstWhere for got broken. The pattern is to search a collection and return null if the search returns nothing. The short answer is that you should use firstWhereOrNull instead in this case. Example of the Issue Before the null safe version of Dart the code would look like this: The naive conversion to null safety would be: But this conversion will show a warning that the test if ( null == val ) is not required because the value can’t be null. What’s [Read on…]