What is context in Dart flutter?

Without the BuildContext belonging to the Widget we are in, Flutter has no way of knowing WHERE (in the Widget-tree) to look for the Data we are looking for . Same goes for Navigation, we need to know where we are coming from, to go somewhere new.

The context model keeps track of all known variables and functions . It is structured hierarchically to offer nested scopes.

– Context is a link to the location of a widget in the tree structure of widgets . – Context can belong to only one widget. – If a widget has child widgets, then the context of the parent widget becomes the parent context for the contexts of direct child elements.