How does provider in Flutter work?

It’s the Element’s responsibility to tell Flutter that it has changed, and it needs to be repainted. This is done this via a method called markNeedsBuild , which is called internally . This matters to us (provider users) because all objects in Provider are widgets (and elements). They know how to interface with Flutter.

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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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