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avoid-global-state

added in: 1.0.0 warning

The rule should violate on not final and non-const top-level variables.

Having many mutable global variables inside application is a pretty bad practice:

  • application state becomes distributed between multiple files
  • application state is not protected: it can be modified in almost any place
  • it might be hard to debug such applications

So the common practice is to use state management solutions instead of mutable global variables.

Example​

Bad:​

var answer = 42; // LINT
var evenNumbers = [1, 2, 3].where((element) => element.isEven); // LINT

class Foo {
  static int? bar; // LINT
}

Good:​

const answer = 42;
final evenNumbers = [1, 2, 3].where((element) => element.isEven);

class Foo {
  static int bar = 42;
}