The Consumer Widget: Introduction
Explore how to apply the Consumer widget from Flutter's Provider library to manage state effectively. Understand why Consumer is often preferred over Provider.of for granular widget rebuilding and how ChangeNotifierProvider supports efficient state updates in your Flutter apps.
The Consumer widget
How do we use the Consumer widget from the Provider library to manage Flutter states?
Well, let’s check that.
We have already learned what a Flutter state is, before. Although we’ve not yet explored state management in Flutter alone, we have previously touched upon Providers. In that lesson, we learned how to manage a state in Flutter.
But how can we use the Provider consumer widget to manage the state? Let’s take a look.
Consumer() vs. Provider.of()
Is the Consumer<T> method better than the Provider.of()<T> method to manage the state?
The author of the provider package, Rémi Rousselet, mentioned a few key points ...