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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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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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

BLoC – writing business logic separately

BLoC stands for business logic component. This technique is widely used in a lot of applications due to its capability of decoupling your core business logic from your UI, network, or repository classes. BLoC works on streams underneath and allows you to send events from your UI and receive states to your UI in order to update the changes based on user interaction. Inside BLoC state management, there are three main keywords you will have to get yourself familiarized with:

  • The bloc itself (all your business logic lies inside this class)
  • The state (this tells the UI when to update itself)
  • The event (you trigger the events from your UI class in order to do something inside your bloc)

Adding a BLoC dependency in your application

Just like before, create a new Flutter application through the command line:

flutter create any_name_you_wish

You will get the same counter example application with the default setState...

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