10 Flutter State Management library, that you must know about it

This library’s that most developers preferred

Shirsh Shukla
5 min readSep 20, 2021

In this article, we will discuss some of those libraries that are mostly used for state management, because those states management library well structured in terms of MVVM, MVC or we can say business patterns logic.

Most of those library created by very experienced developers like Remi Rousselet, Filip Hracek, Felix Angelov, etc.

Also, these libraries community is so strong, you can also contribute to those if you find out the solution of any bug or issue on themselves.

So let’s discuss that,

  1. Provider

It’s simple, faster easy to use.

Recommend by Flutter Developer Advocate engineer’s.

It's mostly showing in the Flutter Authorized channel on YouTube.

  • Key point

The provider is a wrapper around InheritedWidget to make them easier to use and more reusable.

Pub.dev Statics

  • Likes - 5075+
  • Pub Points - 130
  • Popularity - 100 %

2. flutter_bloc

The BLoC pattern is one of the best ways to enhance and organize your Flutter app’s architecture. It’s easy to set up and use, and it makes your code predictable and easy to test.

It’s similar to the MVVM structure.

  • Key point

Flutter Widgets that make it easy to implement the BLoC (Business Logic Component) design pattern. Built to be used with the bloc state management package.

Pub.dev Statics

  • Likes - 2780+
  • Pub Points - 130
  • Popularity - 99 %

3. GetX

A service locator-based state management approach that doesn’t need a BuildContext.

  • Key point

GetX is an extra-light and powerful solution for Flutter. It combines high-performance state management, intelligent dependency injection, and route management quickly and practically.

Pub.dev Statics

  • Likes - 6220+
  • Pub Points - 120
  • Popularity - 99 %

4. Redux

Redux is a unidirectional data flow architecture that makes it easy to develop, maintain and test applications.

  • Key point

Redux is a predictable state container for Dart and Flutter apps. Redux for Dart using generics for typed State. It includes a rich ecosystem of Docs, Middleware, Dev Tools and can be combined with Flutter using the flutter_redux package.

Pub.dev Statics

  • Likes - 237+
  • Pub Points - 115
  • Popularity - 97 %

5. Fish-Redux

Fish Redux is an assembled flutter application framework based on Redux state management. It is suitable for building medium and large applications.

Key point

Fish Redux is an assembled flutter application framework based on Redux state management. It is suitable for building medium and large applications.

Pub.dev Statics

  • Likes - 51+
  • Pub Points - 100
  • Popularity - 92 %

6. MobX
MobX is a library for reactively managing the state of your applications. Use the power of observables, actions, and reactions to supercharge your Dart and Flutter apps.

  • Key point

Supercharge the state-management in your Dart apps with Transparent Functional Reactive Programming (TFRP)

Pub.dev Statics

  • Likes - 681+
  • Pub Points - 120
  • Popularity - 98 %

7. GetIt

This is a simple Service Locator for Dart and Flutter projects with some additional goodies highly inspired by Splat. It can be used instead of InheritedWidget or Provider to access objects e.g. from your UI. Accessing service objects like REST API clients or databases so that they easily can be mocked.

Key point

A service locator-based state management approach that doesn’t need a BuildContext.

Pub.dev Statics

  • Likes - 1496+
  • Pub Points - 130
  • Popularity - 99 %

8. Riverpod

Riverpod is a popular Flutter state management library that shares many of the advantages of Provider and brings many additional benefits. ... But it is a very powerful state management library that allows you to: easily create, access, and combine providers with minimal boilerplate code.

  • Key point

A simple way to access state from anywhere in your application while robust and testable.

Pub.dev Statics

  • Likes - 1032+
  • Pub Points - 130
  • Popularity - 98 %

9. stacked

Stacked provides you with classes and functionalities to make it easy to implement that base architecture that this package is built for. There are additional things that you can add to your application that will make the user of this architecture much more pleasant.

  • Key point

An architecture and widgets for an MVVM-inspired architecture in Flutter. It provides common functionalities required to build a large application in an understandable manner.

Pub.dev Statics

  • Likes - 831+
  • Pub Points - 120
  • Popularity - 97 %

10. binder

The vision. As with other state management patterns, the binder aims to separate the application state from the business logic that updates it: We can see the whole application state as the agglomeration of a multitude of tiny states. Each state is independent of the other.

  • Key point

A lightweight, yet powerful way to bind your application state with your business logic.

Pub.dev Statics

  • Likes - 46+
  • Pub Points - 120
  • Popularity - 56 %

Conclusion :

So in terms of Likes GetX is popular but in other terms, the provider library is popular on youtube and many articles are also so discussed on flutter developer in his youtube channel, also the same as a bloc.

every library is better in terms of our use, comfort with team members and project requirements especially.

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Have a nice day!🙂

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Shirsh Shukla

SDE at Reliance Jio | Mobile Application Developer | Speaker | Technical Writer | community member at Stack Overflow | Organizer @FlutterIndore