A deep dive into two popular tools for state management in Flutter: Provider, and its improved successor, Riverpod.

With so many options, it’s easy to get overwhelmed when choosing a state manager for your application. It seems that diverse state management solutions are released more often than one can imagine, each hoping to present a unique and easier way of handling the state.

In this article, we will be covering two different state management tools: Provider and Riverpod. We will briefly go over each tool to see the improvements Riverpod offers and why one might choose it over Provider, then highlight issues that Provider has with solutions that Riverpod provides.

This post assumes you are familiar with Flutter. Since it’s not an introduction to Riverpod or the Provider state management package, we won’t be going too deep into their features – only enough to point out the comparisons. This post focuses on Riverpod as a natural successor to Provider.

• What is a state?
• State management
• Riverpod
• Why choose Riverpod?
• Issues with Provider that Riverpod solves
• Comparing Provider and Riverpod

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