Better Asynchronous Operations

A slick built-in means to handle Asynchronous Operations

I’ve written up an example app in the GitHub repository called, inheritedwidget_state_mixin_example. It initially highlighted the Mixin, inheritedwidget_state_mixin, as it provides a built-in InheritedWidget to your State object for more efficient interface rebuilds. It has its own article called, The InheritedWidget Mixin, discussing its use and its features.

However, the example app used another Mixin as well. One which provided another built-in feature to your State object. This time, it’s a FutureBuilder Widget. That’s what this article will talk about. If you’re not interested, at least this article will demonstrate using a Mixin to you, and a code walk through on how the FutureBuilder Widget works. The screenshot below is of that Mixin where a FutureBuilder Widget resides in the State object’s build() function.

futurebuilder_state_mixin.dart

Using the Mixin, FutureBuilderStateMixin, a FutureBuilder Widget is integrated into your State object to better handle any Asynchronous operations that need to be done before the State object can display its content. Akin to the State class’ initState() function, this Mixin provides the State class with the initAsync() function as a slick and easy approach to complete such operations. I use this approach instead of executing asynchronous tasks even before calling the…