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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

MobX – using observables with the fewest lines of code

MobX is just another sort of reactive state management library that allows you to connect your reactive data directly to your UI using observables. The best part about MobX is that it requires the least amount of code you will need to create your apps. It takes away a lot of boilerplate code from you and allows you to generate most of it using the build_runner command.

We will study the following concepts in MobX:

  • Observables
  • Actions
  • The Observer widget
  • The Build runner dependency for the autogeneration of boilerplate code

Let's jump into setting up dependencies to create our counterexample application.

Adding MobX, Build Runner, and Codegen dependencies to the sample app

Just like on every other occasion, create a new Flutter app through the command line:

flutter create any_name_you_wish

You will get the same counterexample application with a default setState widget implemented...

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