Hive (Flutter Tutorial) – Lightweight & Fast NoSQL Database in Pure Dart

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Storing data locally is a task which has to be done by almost every app. Maybe, you want to cache responses from a REST API or you're building an offline-only app. In any case, choosing the right local database can make all the difference in how quickly you can develop the app and also in how performant the app will be.

Hive is a lightweight, yet powerful database which is easy to develop with and it also runs fast on the device. Unless you absolutely need to model your data with many relationships, in which case you should probably use SQLite, choosing this pure-Dart package with no native dependencies (it runs on Flutter Web!) can be the best option.

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Every second of this video was useful for me. Thanks.

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Thank you very much for this wonderful tutorial!!

[danieldey]

Very helpful video, much better then documentations for doing it first time.

[rydmike]

Thanks, very well made tutorial and useful. I was considering to switch to Hive earlier already for storing app settings. After this I am convinced and with a good and easy to follow guide.

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[ShitIndie]

I was going full inception, listening to The Hives while working with the Hive.

[FilledStacks]

Awesome. Hive looks like a much more viable option than SQLite to me in terms of simplicity and ease of setup and use. Thanks for the tutorial.

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[Klausi-uqxq]

I started today with hive...at the beginning hard to unterstand things like typeadapter and so..i fumbeld round about 2 hours with generating of the .g.dart File..because Null Safety Problems from Others dependencies..but now hive is very fast and very nice to handle, Not Like sqlite3 or so. Thank you for this tutorial which i found just a hour later after i solved much of the shown ways alone or by Stack Overflow 🤣

[gmcquads]

Nice tutorial and thanks for clarifying some stuff for me. On the build _runner/Dart analyzer thing. I shared the same experience but while creating a generator/build library. I almost went mad.

[MrHimanshun]

Great tutorial, very clear and concise. I had question though, Is there a way to implement search with hive??

[burakbirer]

Thank you. What do you think about Hive + Firestore implementation?

[radurot]

Great tutorial. Is there a flutter hive client/data visualiser to inspect boxes?

[gmcquads]

I solved that analyzer stuff by just using pubspec assist and providing analyzer package that was 2 versions down. That way, when the issue is fixed all i need to do is make the package version empty then run pub upgrade

[Baraka]

Nice design dock and window btw ! What did u use ? Rainmeter ? And which package ?