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The GetX Widget

The GetX Widget

Learn to handle automatic state updates with GetX.

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Overview

The GetX widget is practically the same as GetBuilder with one key difference—it’s based on streamsStreams in Flutter are asynchronous sequences of data events that can be listened to and processed over time, facilitating reactive programming and continuous data handling.. This means we don’t have to call the update method to refresh widgets manually. Instead, with GetX, we actively listen to state changes and refresh widgets automatically.

Let’s see how to use it. First, we create the controller to hold our variables and methods.

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class Controller extends GetxController {
  final RxInt count = 0.obs;
  void incrementCount() => count.value++;
}

RxInt is short for reactive integer. Basically, it’s a stream of type int. We can make any variable reactive or observable using the .obs extension. We use the .value extension to access ...