Why Not GetX: Truth About Disadvantages of GetX

GetX is the most liked package in the Flutter Community but comes with it's own set of disadvantages. This video highlights some of the problems in this Flutter plugin. Some disadvantages are facts while some, personal opinions. The purpose of this video is to spread awareness about these limitations/problems, which make the plugin dangerous to use. Would appreciate not hating on the plugin based on what I say. Whatever happens, it takes time and effort to create such plugins. If you have any contradicting points to what I said, make sure to leave a comment (Looking forward to getting a new perspective on these tools)

👀 Ismail Alam Khan:

Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:10) Simplicity
(01:19) GetX Replacing Flutter
(01:55) GetX Promotes Anti-Patterns
(02:54) GetX Does Everything
(03:35) Lack of Proper Documentation
(05:01) Less Test Coverage
(05:21) Unfriendly Testing
(05:37) GetX is Not Well-Thought (Personal Opinion)
(06:15) Conclusion
(06:47) Special Thanks!

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[marufhassan]

The points are very valid but I feel sad for the creator, he puts hundreds of hours into simplifying Flutter and its usage for free but still gets so much hate from the community. Having more people to merge PR, write documentation and tests would help the package immensely.

[pedrolucasdeoliveiralara]

Ok so GetX is bad because
1) it's simple to use
2) replaces the shitty way flutter handles context that everyone complains about
3) Is more beaultiful that material and cupertino together
4) It does alone what it would take 10 libs to do
5) Has the same 'comment coverage' as mobx
6) Didn't waste time writing useless tests, instead focused on delivering a state management solution that doesn't suck
7) Actually has a friendly way to test code (this opinion is outdated)
8) You personally don't like it

good reasons (:

[RobertoGindro]

Hi Rivaan and thank-you very much for your effort. Could I ask you what do you think about Stacked Architecture? I would like to move away from GetX and I'm trying to learn Riverpod, but I feel more comfortable with Stacked. Thank-you.

[faheemahmad]

Kindly make a full course Using GetX version 5 and Clean architecture

[shijinthottiyil]

Getx makes you do more with less.We dont need to write boilerplate code

[justflutter]

Thankyou for providing us these info in a single video.
I am wondering how getx can be faster under this situation

[md.ismailalamkhan]

Great video man, you explained the topics really great.

[akinbamitaofeek]

The right way to put it. Impressive!!!

[byte_it]

i always wanted to learn flutter purchased a course etc but never really enjoyed.. your videos are amazing bhaiya, now i'm learning while developing from your videos. Hope you continue this good work for the community.

[dimasdark]

I agree, a begineer maybe doesn't get your points but an experienced developer will praise for architecture principles that mostly follow SOLID and Clean Code, and GetX is easy but makes everything too coupled.

[Sadman]

Thanks for the video :) it open my eyes

[patrickwitter]

Hi. A good video is to explain mvvm pattern and its relation to MVC. There are many flavours of this pattern but fundamental concepts are not explored. That video would be really appreciated. Also great video. A series exploring the fundamental parts of flutter framework such as life cycles and build context would be appreciate also.

[rahulagarwal]

Please if possible make a complete video for beginners on MVVM in Flutter with Riverpod.

[AbhishekKumar-bxgp]

Informative, thanks for video, beginners should watch

[demodemo]

You are my best guide for flutter learning bro .❤❤❤

[luiztosk]

r/flutterdev brought me here, right on point. Thanks for the info.

[vijaygovinda]

Anyway Getx is awesome, we can't ignore, thanks for the video..

[faheemahmad]

Please make a revices version and Also use GetX 5 and whats new and how to fix all

[satdevlpr]

According to you, which state management is best in terms of the performance of heavy
Bloc, Provider, RevorPod?

[Easy_Flutter]

The first disadvantage is simplicity. Truth is a Lie. War is Peace. Simplicity is Disadvantage.