Gain insights into mastering Flutter state management with Riverpod and Provider libraries. Learn about reducing widget rebuilds and best practices to enhance your cross-platform app development skills.

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Flutter SDK is an excellent tool for developing cross-platform applications from a single codebase. So, it's no surprise that many professionals and learners have decided to gain mastery over Flutter concepts.

One such concept is state management, and many, despite having intermediate-to-advanced proficiency in Flutter, still struggle with this concept. This course will help you learn and master the best practices for state management in Flutter.

You will learn to use the two best Flutter libraries, Riverpod and Provider, for state management. You will even learn about reducing widget rebuilds by managing their state.

Master State Management in Flutter

To start this course, we need to set up the Flutter framework. Luckily, the Educative platform has already done this in the provided executable code examples. We'll play around with these code environments throughout the course to give you some hands-on practice. However, you can also set up Flutter locally using the instructions available in the [Appendix Chapter](https://www.educative.io/courses/master-state-management-flutter/flutter-installation-for-windows).

# Prerequisites and intended audience

This course is for intermediate to advanced learners and professionals, who have learned Flutter but want to know more about Flutter state management. 

The most confusing part of state management in Flutter is that there are so many options available. While the options give developers a lot of versatility, they also can also make it quite challenging to pick up the right one for each use case. 




This course will not only teach how to find the right choice but, at the same time, explore how the state object works under the hood in Flutter.

Let's see all the state management options at one glance. After that, we will start our journey to understand Flutter state management and its best practices.

# Multiple options for state management

1. StatefulWidget
2. InheritedWidget
3. ChangeNotifier with Provider
4. ValueNotifier with Provider
5. StateNotifier with Provider
6. Riverpod
7. BLoC library
8. MobX
9. Redux
10. Fish Redux
11. Async Redux
12. RxDart View Model
13. StreamProvider
14. Flutter Hooks

## Riverpod
To avoid confusion, we'll stick to one great choice, which is the Riverpod state management library. We will learn how to use it in detail. 

However, before understanding Riverpod, we need to first understand the `Provider` package and its limitations. Remember to always use the latest [`Provider`](https://pub.dev/packages/provider) and [Riverpod](https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_riverpod) packages for state management.

We also strongly recommend using the [latest version](https://flutter.dev/docs/whats-new) of Flutter and always maintain [null safety](https://flutter.dev/docs/null-safety).

See why you should take this course and what you will learn.

Introduction

Stateless vs. Stateful Widgets

Flutter Callbacks and Maps

Managing States and Widgets in Flutter

A Brief Look at the Flutter Provider Library

A Deeper Dive Into the Provider Library

Riverpod Library for State Management

Flutter Challenges

Conclusion

Appendix

Getting Started