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Flutter Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Flutter Design Patterns and Best Practices Build scalable, maintainable, and production-ready apps using effective architectural principles

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801072649
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jaime Blasco Jaime Blasco
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Daria Orlova Daria Orlova
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Esra Kadah Esra Kadah
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Building Delightful User Interfaces
2. Chapter 1: Best Practices for Building UIs with Flutter FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Responsive UIs for All Devices 4. Part 2: Connecting UI with Business Logic
5. Chapter 3: Vanilla State Management 6. Chapter 4: State Management Patterns and Their Implementations 7. Chapter 5: Creating Consistent Navigation 8. Part 3: Exploring Practical Design Patterns and Architecture Best Practices
9. Chapter 6: The Responsible Repository Pattern 10. Chapter 7: Implementing the Inversion of Control Principle 11. Chapter 8: Ensuring Scalability and Maintainability with Layered Architecture 12. Chapter 9: Mastering Concurrent Programming in Dart 13. Chapter 10: A Bridge to the Native Side of Development 14. Part 4: Ensuring App Quality and Stability
15. Chapter 11: Unit Tests, Widget Tests, and Mocking Dependencies 16. Chapter 12: Static Code Analysis and Debugging Tools 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up our first repository

In this section, we will take our first steps into implementing the repository pattern for our app. In the context of the Candy Store app, and in general, the repository will serve as a bridge between our app’s UI and the data sources. It will handle tasks such as retrieving a list of candies, adding new candies, and updating the candy stock. By doing so, it centralizes data access and ensures that our business logic remains unburdened by data-fetching code.

We will walk through the process of creating our first repository for the Candy Store app. We’ll define its responsibilities, set up data sources, and leverage repository interfaces to build a clean and maintainable data access layer for our application.

Defining responsibilities

In this section, we’ll take a practical approach to defining the responsibilities of our Candy Store app’s repository within the context of our product list page. Instead of diving into...

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