diff --git a/public/docs/_examples/toh-1/dart-snippets/app_component_snippets_pt1.dart b/public/docs/_examples/toh-1/dart-snippets/app_component_snippets_pt1.dart
index 8b21290440..3bfa89762d 100644
--- a/public/docs/_examples/toh-1/dart-snippets/app_component_snippets_pt1.dart
+++ b/public/docs/_examples/toh-1/dart-snippets/app_component_snippets_pt1.dart
@@ -32,6 +32,6 @@ template: '''
 // #docregion app-component-1
 class AppComponent {
   String title = 'Tour of Heroes';
-  Hero hero = 'Windstorm';
+  var hero = 'Windstorm';
 }
 // #enddocregion app-component-1