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Choosing the Right Approach

Explore various GetX state management approaches such as GetBuilder, GetX, Obx, StateMixin, and others to understand their use cases and control levels. Learn to select the most appropriate method for efficient and performant Flutter app development.

Overview

As GetX provides many options for state management, choosing the right approach is important. Now the approach we choose depends on a variety of aspects. In this lesson, we’ll go through each approach and discuss the scenarios for using it.

GetBuilder

  1. Simpler implementation: GetBuilder uses internal callbacks to update the state, and it cannot get any simpler than that.

  2. Performant: The simple implementation results in performance. If all you care about is the app’s performance, use GetBuilder without thinking twice.

  3. Refined control: Since we manually update the widgets, we get refined control over which widgets to update and when to update them.

  4. A ton of options: GetBuilder has the most options of any approach. We get life cycle controls, ...