What does the provider do in Flutter?

One of the main reasons to prefer Provider over Statefulwidget s is that, using Provider , you will rebuild only the widgets that needs that value (the Consumers ) while the other will not be rebuilt . Instead when you call setState the whole build function of the widget will be called.19 May 2021

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How does provider work Flutter?

The generics (values inside <> brackets) tell Flutter what type of provider to look for. Then Flutter goes up through the widget tree until it finds the provided value. If the value isn’t provided anywhere then an exception is thrown. Finally, once you’ve got the provider, you can call any method on it.12 Haz 2020

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What is provider used for?

Provider is a wrapper around InheritedWidget to make them easier to use and more reusable . this is probably the approach you should start with. The provider package is easy to understand and it doesn’t use much code. It also uses concepts that are applicable in every other approach.1 Eki 2019

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