Introduction to Route Management

Importance of navigation system

Navigation is the foundational feature of any kind of application. It’s hard to imagine an app without a page navigation system. While simple at its core, navigation can get incredibly tricky as our application scales. There can be hundreds of screens, multiple navigation stacks, dynamically generated pages, and whatnot. Hence, it becomes necessary that the app’s navigation system is robust and maintainable. Let’s see how Flutter handles it!

Flutter’s navigation system

Flutter provides a decent API to navigate to different pages, navigate back, remove pages from the stack, etc. While it can handle complex scenarios like nested navigation and dynamic page URLs (with Navigator 2.0), it falls short in simplicity. Things get out of hand pretty quickly.

Not to mention that the syntax for even basic page navigation is quite verbose. See how we navigate to a page in Flutter: