bloc VS freezed

BLoC Library - Learn how to use the BLoC pattern for state management

[Copied from https://github.com/felangel/bloc/issues/4002]

I've recently ported my project to BloC and I used the BloC infinite scrolling example as a blue print for fetching data from my FireStore repository.

Architecture: Repository pattern as described on bloclibrary.dev

Vs Code has this extension, that can generate all boilerplate code that you need, and everything about bloc has been documented right here. Take a day or two, to familiarize yourself with the examples.

Looks solid, congrats! This is probably a huge ask but, flutter_bloc has this repository of examples covering almost every imaginable use case. Would be really great to have something similar. Check it out > https://github.com/felangel/bloc/tree/master/examples

From this issue on the bloc package :

Check out https://bloclibrary.dev I think they do decoupling the best

https://bloclibrary.dev taught me a bunch

There is the `sealed` class modifier which allows for exhaustive matching on possible types: https://dart.dev/language/class-modifiers#sealed

There's also a package called freezed which offers similar utility (you might already be familiar with this seeing as you mentioned pattern matching): https://pub.dev/packages/freezed

I recall there being a reason unions aren't generally implemented, though I'm not sure where I read it. It was to do with union types being unnecessarily complex for the compiler and the code they tend to produce, at no real benefit to the programmer or the resulting program. Go's lack of unions is essentially based around the same reasoning.

Interesting. May I ask how this differs from something like Freezed https://pub.dev/packages/freezed and its from/ToJson features ? I haven't used it yet, but I'm just curious about the concept and use of these sort of packages.

The official site does show what you can use it for but to explain a bit more, it helps you work faster.

One rather minor suggestion: it took me a while to understand exactly what the benefits were, but the example shown on this page of the docs summarized it well. I would suggest showing an example like that at the top of the main Readme and first page of the site, before or right after the motivation section, similar to how Freezed immediately shows its value proposition.

Read more on what you can do with Freezed.

freezed on pub.dev

We use freezed for our models, and then use withConverter in the firestore SDK to easily translate between firestore and our models... however we run into issues with concurrent updates to documents.

Once the package has been created, we will install freezed for JSON serialization and value equality , as this library provides helpful tools for these tasks. We will use json_serializable for JSON serialization. To install freezed and freezed_annotation, open your terminal inside the models package and use the command:

Data class: freezed

I've recently been exploring a codebase which is heavily using Freezed with Bloc. The resulting code base is almost an entirely different language altogether, and comes with almost triple the files of a non-freezed codebase.