The ChangeNotifierProvider Widget
Explore how to use ChangeNotifierProvider in Riverpod for efficient Flutter state management. Understand its autoDispose feature to reduce widget rebuilds and manage app state with less boilerplate. Learn to build apps that update only necessary widgets, improving performance and structure.
Riverpod’s ChangeNotifierProvider
In the previous lesson, we combine both the Riverpod and Provider packages. We’ve seen the most critical part of state management with Riverpod. We mixed Riverpod and the old Provider package to have some coding fun. We also checked how we could reduce widget rebuilds.
We have also discussed Provider's ChangeNotifierProvider in great detail previously. The new Riverpod state management package also uses the same ChangeNotifierProvider but with a particular flavor, making it more advanced.
Provider's ChangeNotifierProvider
Let us summarize and state the ChangeNotifierProvider's main points in the Provider package.
We have seen and used such cases in our early examples. A model class that extends ChangeNotifier can call notifyListeners() any time the state in that class is changed or updated.
In a model-view-controller pattern, we notify the UI to rebuild the layout ...