Managing State in Flutter Pragmatically: Discover how to adopt the best state management approach for scaling your Flutter app

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Copyright and Credits
Table of Contents
Section 1:The Basics of State Management
Chapter 1: States and State Management Overview
Flutter – a brief introduction
What is a state?
Importance of a state in an application
Different states in a large application
What is state management?
Choosing the best technique for your application
Summary
Chapter 2: The Core Building Blocks of State Management
Technical requirements
Managing states within a widget with setState
The counter application example
Widget rebuilding – widget trees
Passing data to another screen – setState example
Updating the first screen's counter value
Section overview – setState
Optional challenge – setState
Inherited widgets – injecting the state at the root
Inherited widgets – updating the counter variable
Section overview – inherited widgets
Inherited models – optimizing inherited widgets
Remember the optional challenge?
Section overview – inherited models
Summary
Section 2:Types, Techniques, and Approaches
Chapter 3: Diving into Advanced State Management Approaches
Technical requirements
Provider – using less boilerplate code than InheritedWidget
Adding a Provider dependency in a sample application
Consuming Provider using the ChangeNotifierProvider class
Section overview – Provider
Riverpod – enhancing Provider
Adding a Riverpod dependency in a sample application
Using the simplest version of Riverpod to update the counter value
Using a custom class as a state in Riverpod
Section overview – Riverpod
BLoC – writing business logic separately
Adding a BLoC dependency in your application
Creating a counter example application using BLoC
Optional challenge – BLoC
Section overview – BLoC
Cubit – simplified BLoC
Creating a counter example application using Cubit
Section overview – Cubit
Summary
Chapter 4: Adopting State Management Approaches from React
Technical requirements
Redux – using unidirectional data flow
Adding a Redux dependency to a sample app
Consuming Redux using StoreProvider in code
Section overview – Redux
MobX – using observables with the fewest lines of code
Adding MobX, Build Runner, and Codegen dependencies to the sample app
Using code generation to create boilerplate code through build runner
MobX – section overview
Summary
Chapter 5: Executing Distinctive Approaches Like GetX, GetIt, and Binder
Technical requirements
GetX – simplified reactions
Adding a GetX dependency in a sample application
Example of a counter application using GetBuilder
Exploring more in GetX
Section overview – GetX
Optional challenge – GetX
GetIt – no BuildContext required
Adding a GetIt dependency in a sample application
Counter example application using GetIt
Section overview – GetIt
Binder – using scopes to separate business logic
Adding a Binder dependency in a sample application
Counter example application using Binder
Section overview – Binder
Summary
Section 3:Code-Level Implementation
Chapter 6: Creating a Shopping Cart Application Using Basic Approaches
Technical requirements
Creating a shopping cart application with setState
Section overview
Optional challenge
Creating a shopping cart application with InheritedWidget
Section overview
Optional challenge
Creating a shopping cart application with InheritedModel
Section overview
Summary
Chapter 7: Manipulating a Shopping Cart Application through BLoC, Provider, and React-Based Approaches
Technical requirements
Creating a shopping cart application with BLoC
Creating a shopping cart application with Cubit
Creating a shopping cart application with Provider
Creating a shopping cart application with Riverpod
Creating a shopping cart application with Redux
Creating a shopping cart application with MobX
Summary
Chapter 8: Using GetX, GetIt, and Binder to Update the Cart App
Technical requirements
Creating a cart app with GetX
Optional challenge – GetX
Creating a cart app with GetIt
Creating a cart app using Binder
Summary
Chapter 9: Comparative State Management Analysis: When to Use What?
Technical requirements
Revisiting the techniques
setState
InheritedWidget and InheritedModel
Provider
Riverpod
BLoC and Cubit
Redux
MobX
GetX
GetIt
Binder
Mapping different techniques to different application ideas
setState
InheritedWidget/InheritedModel
Provider/Riverpod
BLoC/Cubit
Distinctive approaches
Redux
MobX
Creating a good architecture
Author's choice of state management technique – a hybrid approach
A short overview of state management decision-making
Summary
Index