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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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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

Provider – using less boilerplate code than InheritedWidget

If you understood InheritedWidget well from the previous chapter, you will be able to grasp Provider much faster. This is due to the fact that Provider functions just the same as InheritedWidget, but with much less boilerplate code. You won't need to set up a separate inherited widget class and an intermediate class that uses setState functions within itself. You will only be using the Provider class wrapped around your root widget along with accessing it inside any of the children widgets using the .of method. Let's revisit this and try the same counter app example using Provider.

Adding a Provider dependency in a sample application

Create a new application using any name you want just like we did in the previous chapter:

flutter create any_name_you_wish

You will get the same counter example application with the default setState management technique implemented to update the counter value.

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