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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

Preface

This book is a definitive guide for people who are starting out with Flutter and want to learn about state management, and also those who have some sort of background in state management but they either use one solution for everything or get confused with what technique to use. The book will take a hands-on approach wherein we will first cover the basics related to state management in Flutter and quickly dive into building and manipulating a shopping cart app using all the popular approaches, such as BloC/Cubit, Provider, MobX, Riverpod, and so on, for managing state in Flutter. We will also learn how to adopt approaches from React, such as Redux and all its flavors.

Flutter is a cross-platform UI toolkit that enables developers to create beautiful native applications for mobile, desktop, and the web with a single code base. State management is one of the most crucial and complex topics within Flutter, having a decent learning curve that users have struggled with – mainly due to the wide array of approaches available.