In flutter, controllers are a means to give control to the parent widget over its child state . The main selling point of controllers is that they remove the need of a GlobalKey to access the widget State. This, in turn, makes it harder to do anti-pattern stuff and increase performances.
Read moreWhat is the difference between TextField and TextFormField?
TextField is a simple text field. (you don’t care about user input) TextFormField is a text field to be used in a form (you care about user input) . If you don’t need to validate TextField . If you need to validate user input, use TextFormField with validator .
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