🧹 Documentation & Structure Improvements #

✨ Enhanced

• Complete documentation overhaul with comprehensive usage guides
• Streamlined documentation structure - removed redundant files for clarity
• Enhanced example documentation with practical implementation details
• Improved method naming - all extensions now use descriptive names (e.g., increment() instead of inc)
• Full freedom philosophy - emphasized flexibility over restrictive patterns

🗑️ Removed

• Redundant documentation files - cleaned up duplicate markdown files
• Restrictive widget patterns - removed forced patterns like ref.counter()
• Abbreviated method names - replaced with clear, descriptive alternatives

📚 Documentation

• COMPLETE_USAGE_GUIDE.md - comprehensive guide emphasizing user freedom
• RIVERPOD_VS_SUGAR.md - detailed comparison with standard Riverpod
• Enhanced README.md - streamlined main documentation
• Updated example README - practical demo documentation

🚀 REVOLUTIONARY RELEASE: ScreenUtil-Style State Management! #

🔥 Game-Changing Features

• Sugar Extensions - Revolutionary one-liner provider creation and state management
  • Instant Provider Creation: 0.state, "text".text, false.toggle, <String>[].items
  • Descriptive State Updates: counter.increment(ref), name.updateText(ref, "value"), toggle.toggle(ref)
  • Flexible Value Watching: ref.watchValue(provider), ref.readValue(provider), ref.updateValue(provider, value)
  • 80% Code Reduction: Transform verbose Riverpod into concise one-liners
  • ScreenUtil-Inspired API: Same simplicity as .w, .h, .r, .sp but for state management

⚡ Core Widgets & Components

• RxWidget Family

  • RxWidget - Simplified ConsumerWidget with buildRx() method
  • RxStatefulWidget & RxState - Stateful equivalent with clean syntax
  • RxBuilder - Inline reactive widget builder without creating new classes
  • RxShow - Conditional rendering based on provider state

• AsyncValue Superpowers

  • AsyncValueSugar.easyWhen() - Simplified async state handling with auto loading/error
  • mapData() - Transform data while preserving async state
  • hasDataWhere() - Check conditions on async data
  • dataOrNull - Safe data access without exceptions
  • Smart getters: hasData, isLoading, hasError, errorOrNull

• Complete Form Management

  • FormManager - StateNotifier for comprehensive form validation
  • FormState - Immutable form state with error tracking
  • CommonValidators - Production-ready validation functions:
    • required() - Required field validation
    • minLength() / maxLength() - Length validation
    • email() - Email format validation
    • pattern() - Regex pattern validation
    • range() - Numeric range validation
    • matches() - Field matching validation
    • combine() - Combine multiple validators

🛠️ Advanced Utilities

• Smart Debouncing

  • Debouncer - Simple input debouncing for search and API calls
  • AdvancedDebouncer - Advanced debouncing with leading/trailing/maxWait options

• Intelligent Provider Combination

  • ProviderCombiners - Combine multiple providers elegantly:
    • combine2(), combine3(), combine4() - Combine providers into tuples
    • combineList() - Combine same-type providers into lists
    • map() - Transform provider values
    • where() - Filter provider rebuilds
  • AsyncProviderCombiners - Smart async provider combination with error handling

🎯 Sugar Extensions Reference

• Provider Creation

  final counter = 0.state;           // StateProvider<int>
  final name = "John".text;          // StateProvider<String>
  final isDark = false.toggle;       // StateProvider<bool>
  final todos = <String>[].items;    // StateProvider<List<String>>
  final price = 19.99.price;         // StateProvider<double>
  

• State Operations with Descriptive Names

  counter.increment(ref);           // Increment
  counter.decrement(ref);           // Decrement
  counter.addValue(ref, 5);         // Add value
  counter.resetToZero(ref);         // Reset to 0
  name.updateText(ref, "Jane");     // Update text
  name.clearText(ref);              // Clear text
  isDark.toggle(ref);               // Toggle boolean
  todos.addItem(ref, "New task");   // Add to list
  

• Widget Building

  ref.counter(counter);             // Text widget showing count
  ref.txt(name);                    // Text widget showing string
  ref.show(isDark, MyWidget());     // Conditional widget
  ref.stepper(counter);             // +/- buttons with counter
  

📈 Performance & Developer Experience

• 80% Code Reduction: Turn 50-line Riverpod patterns into 10-line Sugar code
• Zero Learning Curve: Familiar ScreenUtil-style API
• Full Type Safety: Complete null safety and type inference
• Production Ready: Extensive testing and real-world validation
• Perfect Compatibility: Works alongside existing Riverpod code

Documentation

• Comprehensive README with examples
• API documentation for all public members
• Complete example app demonstrating all features
• Migration guide from standard Riverpod

Testing

• Full test coverage for all components
• Example tests for common use cases

Technical Details #

• Dart SDK: >=3.0.0 <4.0.0
• Flutter: >=3.10.0
• Dependencies: flutter_riverpod ^2.4.9
• Null Safety: ✅ Complete null safety support
• Platforms: All Flutter platforms supported

Future Releases #

• RxListView - Reactive list widget with loading states
• RxAnimatedSwitcher - Animated transitions between provider states
• Navigation helpers for provider-aware routing
• Performance optimization widgets
• Additional common validators

• DevTools integration for better debugging
• Code generation macros for providers
• Testing utilities and mock helpers
• Advanced caching strategies
• Background task management

Migration Notes #

From flutter_riverpod to riverpod_sugar #

This package is designed to be a drop-in enhancement to flutter_riverpod:

1. No Breaking Changes: All existing riverpod code continues to work
2. Gradual Adoption: Migrate widgets one at a time
3. Zero Runtime Overhead: Sugar syntax compiles to standard riverpod calls
4. Full Interoperability: Mix and match with existing ConsumerWidget code

Version Compatibility #

Contributing #

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.

Support #

• 📖 Documentation
• 🐛 Issue Tracker
• 💬 Discussions
• 📧 Email Support