What does widget mean in Flutter?

Widgets are the central class hierarchy in the Flutter framework. A widget is an immutable description of part of a user interface . Widgets can be inflated into elements, which manage the underlying render tree. Widgets themselves have no mutable state (all their fields must be final).

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Why provider is used 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.

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