What this book covers
Chapter 1, States and State Management Overview, covers all the basic understanding of state in Flutter, how it affects our application, how it affects our approach to writing code, and how changes in state affect the application in general.
Chapter 2, The Core Building Blocks of State Management, takes a deep dive into the implementations of the core building blocks of state management approaches, starting from setState()
, which is the first approach and the default implemented technique when a new Flutter application is created, followed by InheritedWidget
and InheritedModel
, which are helpful when the scope of the application is expanded.
Chapter 3, Diving into Advanced State Management Approaches, describes in detail the intermediate-advanced level of approaches used in the larger part of the Flutter application development world, starting with BLoC and Cubit, driving down to Provider and its refactored implementation, Riverpod.
Chapter 4, Adopting State Management Approaches from React, takes a look at the approaches in Flutter that are from React. This includes the famous Redux approach and its flavors, Fish-Redux and MobX.
Chapter 5, Executing Distinctive Approaches like GetX, GetIt, and Binder, discusses the approaches that most people use for their convenience and code style. We will discuss the theory and concepts behind GetX, GetIt, and Binder.
Chapter 6, Creating a Shopping Cart Application Using Basic Approaches, describes how to code a shopping cart application using basic approaches.
Chapter 7, Manipulating a Shopping Cart Application through BLoC, Provider, and React-Based Approaches, takes a deep dive into Provider and React-based approaches. This chapter describes how to code the shopping cart app using some famous approaches.
Chapter 8, Using GetX, GetIt, and Binder to Update the Cart Application, describes how to code shopping cart example applications using some specific, simplified approaches.
Chapter 9, Comparative State Management Analysis: When to Use What?, gives you a clear insight into when to use what. This chapter briefly describes all the techniques discussed in the previous chapters and presents a comparative analysis to help you decide what technique should be used in what sort of situation.