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Consumer

Explore how the Consumer widget in Flutter's Provider package improves state management by selectively rebuilding only parts of the UI that change. Understand how to use Consumer to efficiently update widgets like Text without rebuilding the entire screen, enhancing app performance.

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Problem with the provider

We’ve seen how to use the provider and how it behaves. But there is a little problem with how we use the provider to rebuild the UI. When we write the following line of code, it will listen to the change in the provider (CounterProvider) and call the build() method again, which essentially rebuilds the whole UI.

CounterProvider counterProvider =
    Provider.of<CounterProvider>(context, listen: true);

However, this is not the most efficient way. We want to avoid rebuilding the whole UI since ...