31.59 Flutter Package: riverpod ProviderScope

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The concept of a provider is the basis of how state can be managed in flutter. It provides a place to store (an encapsulation of) the current global variable values (called the state).

The basic idea is to wrap the entire app within a ProviderScope(), itself actually also a widget, so that widgets anywhere will be able to access the Providers.

void main() {
  runApp(
      ProviderScope(
          child: MyApp(),
      )
  );
}

The ProviderScope() widget stores the state of all the providers we create. It creates a ProviderContainer() instance. A ProviderContainer() is not often used directly in our code.

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