What is the difference of Stream and Provider?

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Since we can use both of them to manage the state of app.

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@minuth so Provider is just a way to manage the state of your application.

Now there are streamBuilders vs futureBuilders.

  • Future is similar to a Promise in javascript. It performs some asynchronous task, and returns a future. This future holds only one response. Like making a network or API request
  • Stream on the other hand is an asynchronous sequence of data. So you can listen to the changes for data over time. For example mouse events, or if you are making a game, up and down arrow on the keyboard to track how the character is moving.

For more information, Flutter has an excellent article on how Futures and Streams work: