What is a provider in Dart?

A Provider that manages the lifecycle of the value it provides by delegating to a pair of Create and Dispose . It is usually used to avoid making a StatefulWidget for something trivial, such as instantiating a BLoC. Provider is the equivalent of a State.

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What is Consumer Flutter?

Consumer is an object in the Provider library that offers a simple API to interact with your provided models in the widgets themselves . In plain English, Consumer exposes instances of provided models, so you can display data and call methods on your provided model.

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When should I use providers in Flutter?

In a nutshell, Provider gives us an easy, low boiler-plate way to separate business logic from our widgets in apps . Because it’s built on InheritedWidget classes, it also makes it easy to re-use and re-factor business logic. Separating state from your UI is one of the main problems that Provider solves.

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