The InheritedWidget
Many are not using it right.
Here, copy this gist, inherited_state_mixin.dart, and you’ll have a mixin that provides you with a properly implemented InheritedWidget to be used with any State class. I’m seeing developers are not implementing their InheritedWidgets quite right and thus not utilizing them to their fullest. This mixin will make that a distant memory.
I had first introduced this ‘ready-made InheritedWidget’ approach in a previous free article (see below), but it involved my own Flutter framework — you’d have to use my framework to use these ‘built-in’ InheritedWidgets. Further, it was originally implemented in an abstract class, but I’ve since improved the approach using a mixin — making it more versatile by that fact. Now you’ve your own mixin!
In this article, an example app will be used to demonstrate this mixin.
If you’re interested, I have another article, Decode InheritedWidget, offering an in-depth review of the InheritedWidget.
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As always, I prefer using screenshots in my articles over gists to show concepts…
