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Managing State in Flutter Pragmatically

You're reading from   Managing State in Flutter Pragmatically Discover how to adopt the best state management approach for scaling your Flutter app

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070775
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Waleed Arshad Waleed Arshad
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RAHUL AGARWAL RAHUL AGARWAL
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Preface 1. Section 1:The Basics of State Management
2. Chapter 1: States and State Management Overview FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Core Building Blocks of State Management 4. Section 2:Types, Techniques, and Approaches
5. Chapter 3: Diving into Advanced State Management Approaches 6. Chapter 4: Adopting State Management Approaches from React 7. Chapter 5: Executing Distinctive Approaches Like GetX, GetIt, and Binder 8. Section 3:Code-Level Implementation
9. Chapter 6: Creating a Shopping Cart Application Using Basic Approaches 10. Chapter 7: Manipulating a Shopping Cart Application through BLoC, Provider, and React-Based Approaches 11. Chapter 8: Using GetX, GetIt, and Binder to Update the Cart Application 12. Chapter 9: Comparative State Management Analysis: When to Use What? 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Inherited widgets – injecting the state at the root

We observed that by using setState functionality we can tell the code which values to update. We also found out how to pass down the data within the widgets through constructors. This technique can turn into a real mess when you have a very deep widget hierarchy. You will have to pass down your counter value to every widget in order to be able to make it accessible by the deepest widget.

Figure 2.1 – Triangle widget trying to access counter value from the topmost square widget

In order to save the effort of passing the value down to every widget for accessibility, we have something called InheritedWidget. This inherited widget sits at the root of your widget tree and its values can be accessed using the .of method. You might have stumbled on something like Theme.of(context).textTheme.title. This is exactly what we will be doing with our counter example so that our counter value can be accessed...

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