get_it VS freezed

It's actually quite an old lib at its heart, it's the successor to get_it which is 5 yrs old and has 3500+ likes https://pub.dev/packages/get_it

Dependency injection: https://pub.dev/packages/get_it

No it is not, it had a release 3 weeks ago: https://github.com/fluttercommunity/get_it/tags so not sure what you are talking about...

Use a library like https://pub.dev/packages/get_it to save the list in a state object. When ever you get the list again, you get it from the state object. I don't know the library because I use riverpod, but it should be easy to use.

Setting up dependency injection using injectable and get_it

DI: get_it, injectable

I personally use get_it and injectable.

First thing first, I want to describe how it compares to the most popular get_it.

After some research, I found the get_it looked promising. I replaced MultiProvider with getIt singletons at the application start:

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.