List of state management approaches
State management is a complex topic. If you feel that some of your questions haven’t been answered, or that the approach described on these pages is not viable for your use cases, you are probably right.
Learn more at the following links, many of which have been contributed by the Flutter community:
General overview
Things to review before selecting an approach.
- Introduction to state management, which is the beginning of this very section (for those of you who arrived directly to this Options page and missed the previous pages)
- Pragmatic State Management in Flutter, a video from Google I/O 2019
- Flutter Architecture Samples, by Brian Egan
Provider
A recommended approach.
- Simple app state management, the previous page in this section
- Provider package
- You might not need Redux: The Flutter edition, by Ryan Edge
- Making sense of all those Flutter Providers
setState
The low-level approach to use for widget-specific, ephemeral state.
- Adding interactivity to your Flutter app, a Flutter tutorial
- Basic state management in Google Flutter, by Agung Surya
InheritedWidget & InheritedModel
The low-level approach used to communicate between ancestors and children
in the widget tree. This is what provider and many other approaches
use under the hood.
- InheritedWidget docs
- Managing Flutter Application State With InheritedWidgets, by Hans Muller
- Inheriting Widgets, by Mehmet Fidanboylu
- Using Flutter Inherited Widgets Effectively, by Eric Windmill
- Widget - State - Context - InheritedWidget, by Didier Bolelens
Redux
A state container approach familiar to many web developers.
- Animation Management with Redux and Flutter, a video from DartConf 2018 Accompanying article on Medium
- Flutter Redux package
- Redux Saga Middleware Dart and Flutter, by Bilal Uslu
- Introduction to Redux in Flutter, by Xavi Rigau
- Flutter + Redux—How to make a shopping list app, by Paulina Szklarska on Hackernoon
- Building a TODO application (CRUD) in Flutter with Redux—Part 1, a video by Tensor Programming
- Flutter Redux Thunk, an example, by Jack Wong
- Building a (large) Flutter app with Redux, by Hillel Coren
- Fish-Redux–An assembled flutter application framework based on Redux, by Alibaba
- Async Redux–Redux without boilerplate. Allows for both sync and async reducers, by Marcelo Glasberg
- Flutter meets Redux: The Redux way of managing Flutter applications state, by Amir Ghezelbash
BLoC / Rx
A family of stream/observable based patterns.
- Architect your Flutter project using BLoC pattern, by Sagar Suri
- BloC Library, by Felix Angelov
- Reactive Programming - Streams - BLoC - Practical Use Cases, by Didier Boelens
MobX
A popular library based on observables and reactions.
- MobX.dart, Hassle free state-management for your Dart and Flutter apps
- Getting started with MobX.dart
- Flutter: State Management with Mobx, a video by Paul Halliday
GetX
A simplified reactive state management solution.
- GetX package
- Complete GetX State Management, a video by Tadas Petra
- GetX Flutter Firebase Auth Example, by Jeff McMorris