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Managing State in Flutter Pragmatically

By : RAHUL AGARWAL, Waleed Arshad
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Managing State in Flutter Pragmatically

By: RAHUL AGARWAL, Waleed Arshad

Overview of this book

Flutter is a cross-platform user interface (UI) toolkit that enables developers to create beautiful native applications for mobile, desktop, and the web with a single codebase. State management in Flutter is one of the most crucial and complex topics within Flutter, with a wide array of approaches available that can make it easy to get lost due to information overload. Managing State in Flutter Pragmatically is a definitive guide to starting out with Flutter and learning about state management, helping developers with some experience of state management to choose the most appropriate solutions and techniques to use. The book takes a hands-on approach and begins by covering the basics of Flutter state management before exploring how to build and manipulate a shopping cart app using popular approaches such as BLoC/Cubit, Provider, MobX, and Riverpod. Throughout the book, you'll also learn how to adopt approaches from React such as Redux and all its types. By the end of this Flutter book, you'll have gained a holistic view of all the state management approaches in Flutter, and learned which approach is the best solution for managing state in your app development journey.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Section 1:The Basics of State Management
4
Section 2:Types, Techniques, and Approaches
8
Section 3:Code-Level Implementation

Chapter 9: Comparative State Management Analysis: When to Use What?

Finally, we are done with studying and implementing most of the state management techniques used in the Flutter world. Since technology is ever-growing, you might find some techniques that aren't discussed in the book or some that may not exist at all while this book is being written and emerge afterward, but you do not need to worry about those. As long as you know the basic idea and the reason for learning about state management, you can always learn any new technique that comes up any time in the future.

With that being said, let's move on to our final chapter of the book, where we will hover over and revisit all the techniques we discussed in this book for a refresher, and then learn to decide where to use which technique. This chapter is divided into five major sections, as outlined here:

  • Revisiting the techniques—We will briefly go through all the different techniques we have discussed...