What is the http package, and how does it let you actually make a genuinely basic GET request to fetch data from a remote server?

The http package is Dart's own official, genuinely lightweight package specifically for making network requests, providing genuinely simple, straightforward methods such as get, post, put, and delete that each correspond directly to that exact same standard HTTP method, and making a genuinely basic GET request simply involves calling http.get with your particular target URL, then properly awaiting the resulting response, which conveniently includes the actual returned status code and the response body text.

final response = await http.get(Uri.parse('https://api.example.com/products'));
if (response.statusCode == 200) {
  final data = jsonDecode(response.body);
}