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Arslan Yousaf @arslanyousaf12

Migrating A 10k-line Flutter App To Clean Architecture: Challenges

Migration challenge: 10k-line Flutter app to Clean Architecture. Violated Separation of Concerns, singletons, and mixed responsibilities causing architectural ambiguity, state management chaos, testing nightmares & more. Stay tuned for solutions!

The Challenge

I'm currently undertaking an ambitious project: migrating a 10,000-line Flutter application to Clean Architecture. This first post in a series documents the challenges I've encountered, with solutions coming in the follow-up post.

  
  
  Core Issues

The primary challenge stems from violated Separation of Concerns principles. The codebase has become a tangled web where business logic, backend calls, and UI code coexist within the same files. To make matters worse, singletons appear frequently (I'll address why this is problematic in a dedicated post).

  
  
  Before: The Prob...