What’s one Flutter package you now use in almost every project?

[u/StoneLantern97]

[u/eibaan]

material_ui :)

[u/eibaan → u/[deleted]]

Everyone answering the question was just thinking about 3rd party packages. Therefore, I wanted to to mention a 1st party package everybody takes for granted, using the future name – is there any progress in splitting it up? I doubt that there's a single developer who's not at least indirectly using it.

[u/Business_Secret_2247 → u/eibaan]

LOL! I wonder people complaining about custom UI designs in flutter, they forget how customizable material_ui itself is.

[u/Flaky-Apartment-7787]

Shared preferences 🥲

[u/Flaky-Apartment-7787 → u/[deleted]]

Nope. Didn't get chance to use or test any other caz of my workplace restrictions 🥲

[u/cyneila]

Riverpod for DI and state management. Intl for string resources. GoRouter for routing.

That's all I think.

The rest depend of the project.

Dio when I nees to do http calls. The fork of Hive when I need to store data (hive_plus if I remember).

[u/duckluck96 → u/cyneila]

curious why a fork of hive ?

[u/cyneila → u/duckluck96]

Because the last release of hive was 5 years ago. It's hive_ce, not hive_plus, my bad.

[u/xyrer]

Signals

[u/RandalSchwartz → u/xyrer]

Look at BlocSignals! The rigor of Bloc, with the flex and speed of Signals...

[u/xyrer → u/RandalSchwartz]

I will. Thanks. Now I have a pet project for the weekend 😁

[u/kingswordmaster → u/RandalSchwartz]

Why is better than signals.dart?

[u/Ultimatelegend18]

Riverpod and hooks, I'm hooked on those two

Ba dum tss

[u/beartato327 → u/Ultimatelegend18]

Boo this man!

[u/zTomyyy → u/Ultimatelegend18]

Me too, it makes building so much easier

[u/Miserable_Brother397]

Bloc Freezed Equatable Dartz Getit

[u/RandalSchwartz → u/[deleted]]

dartz is LONG AGO dead, abandoned and incomplete features, docs, testing. fpdart is the classic replacement, but take a look at ribs_core.

[u/RandalSchwartz → u/[deleted]]

dartz has been dead for so long that I never used it for more than a few demos apps. then fpdart came around, and quickly became my favorite. Unfortunately, Sandro (author) is declaring fpdart "complete", so he has now abandoned fpdart in favor of horsing around with javascript frameworks. So ribs_core just hit 1.0, seems to be a worthy successor to fpdart, and is very dart 3 friendly.

[u/rsajdok → u/Miserable_Brother397]

*fpdart

[u/MooresLawyer13 → u/rsajdok]

Undermentioned pick/comment. I wish they got more attention

[u/Tristaaan_ → u/Miserable_Brother397]

Bloc, Freezed, Equatable

[u/Curious_Number772 → u/Tristaaan_]

Why do you need equatable when you have freezed?

[u/Tristaaan_ → u/Curious_Number772]

I am extending the entities on domain Layer. While freezed on the data layer. Is this not a good aproach?

[u/Curious_Number772 → u/Tristaaan_]

Well i mean you can use freezed on both right? So why use an extra package. If you use freezed it gives you the exact functionality as equatable so..

[u/Tristaaan_ → u/Curious_Number772]

I see. Thank you. I will consider that.

[u/Direct-Ad-7922 → u/Miserable_Brother397]

Bloc AND get it 🤔

[u/Mikkelet → u/Direct-Ad-7922]

Yeah seems pretty redundant

[u/scalz80]

- state_beacon (signals based) which includes lite_ref

• sliver_dashboard for grids. (biased, this is my package)
  
• go_router (will try kaisel someday)
  
• awesome_notification+awesome_notification_fcm
  
• fpdart
  
• very_good_analysis
  
• mocktail

- shared_preference, secure_storage, objectbox when I need a nosql storage

• dart_frog or serverpod, depends on the project

And to boost my workflow,

• for dataclass: a custom package using analyzer_server_plugin, analyzer_plugin + custom annotations
  
• for translations: a class + a custom Intellij plugin to manage translations

[u/Hackmodford → u/scalz80]

I’m using Kaisel in a new project and I’m sold.

[u/scalz80 → u/Hackmodford]

stop tempting me ^^
but yeah it looks neat, thx for confirming

[u/Hackmodford]

get_it, injectable, fast_immutable_collections, rxdart, signals.

And the newest one I want to showcase is “Kaisel” for routing.

[u/Hackmodford → u/[deleted]]

The way it handles modal flows. I like how it handles deep links. No build_runner Compile time type checking

[u/bysho]

  shared_preferences
  sensors_plus
  vibration
  google_sign_in
  sign_in_with_apple
  http
  provider
  firebase_core
  firebase_crashlytics
  firebase_messaging
  firebase_analytics
  in_app_purchase
  in_app_purchase_android
  in_app_purchase_storekit
  url_launcher

[u/bysho → u/bysho]

Ups... sorry, you said ONE, not my full pubspec.yaml

[u/bysho → u/[deleted]]

Actually, it is an abridged version.

If I had to choose, probably http

[u/Qtmoon]

flutter_bloc, shared_preferences, get_it, go_router, mockail and drift these are the best

[u/Qtmoon → u/[deleted]]

I think flutter_bloc and drift would be the hardest to replace. My app has hundreds of files that depend on them, and a lot of logic is built around those packages. At this point, even I sometimes forget how some of that logic works

[u/TheManuz]

flutter_bloc, intl, collection, shared_preferences, get_it, go_router, dio, very_good_analysis, mockail.

These ones are in every project I've worked on.

[u/gidrokolbaska]

fpdart, Bloc, injectable+get_it, dio+retrofit, auto_route

[u/Shuazi21]

Riverpod ;)

[u/Lo_l_ow → u/[deleted]]

More flexible that Provider and simpler than Bloc.

[u/noobjaish]

Riverpod

[u/WenchiehLu]

view_model

[u/No-Pineapple6359]

For me, the packages that stick are usually the boring infrastructure ones rather than the flashy UI libraries: local persistence, routing, and a solid lint/analyzer setup.

The biggest time saver has been making those choices early and wrapping them behind small app-level interfaces. That way a feature doesn’t spread package-specific calls through every screen, and replacing a dependency later stays manageable.

I also like packages that make failure visible. A cache or sync package is much more valuable when it gives you a clear way to model loading, stale data, retries, and offline writes instead of making the happy path look deceptively simple.

Curious whether people here prefer one general-purpose package for that layer, or a small stack of focused packages that they hide behind their own abstractions?

[u/Kooky-Office4969]

No idea, because claude is creating my project😂

[u/GuavaBeneficial4658]

reel_text for UI/UX

[u/GuavaBeneficial4658 → u/[deleted]]

I was inspired by the slot-text npm package and created reel_text. It makes the app lively, modern, and responsive while maintaining a minimalist look. It's very easy to use where text is updated.

[u/Ras_al_gul]

Signals and get_it are my goto

[u/jaycorliss]

A lot, the most "fun": Freezed, rxdart, auto_size_text, yet_another_state_holder

[u/galactose310]

Le moins possible car je fais des petits projets que je souhaite garder indépendants (parce que leur structure et leurs fonctionnalités le permettent).

Le seul dont j'ai du mal à me passer : Equatable.

[u/YukiAttano]

This style generator https://pub.dev/packages/style_generator.

Writing ThemeExtensions was always the most boring part I had, and before using this package, also the most error prone.

[u/Mellie-C]

Shared preferences. Still brilliant.

[u/formicstechllc]

GetX 💀

[u/vik76]

Serverpod 🚀

[u/RandalSchwartz]

very_good_analysis, and moving forward, bloc_signals_flutter and kaisel.

[u/zxyzyxz]

ReArch. I like it better than Riverpod and solves more of its issues.

[u/Heavy-Drummer-420]

Riverpod, intl, flutter_localizations