What are providers in Dart?

Providers allow to not only expose a value, but also create/listen/dispose it . When you place a Provider widget in your widget tree all the Childs of the Provider will have access to the values exposed by it. For this tutorial we will use a particular type of Provider: ChangeNotifierProvider.

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When should I use provider 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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