A few days ago, I wanted to add spatial features to my backend. I wanted to store the GPS positions of users and return the closest people to them (like a dating app).

Usually, people use PostgreSQL and PostGIS, an extension that enables spatial capabilities, but that’s not something I want. My backend is using SQLite because I’m not expecting more than 10 users a day.

Fortunately, there is an extension that we can use called Spatialite.

I wrote an article where I analyzed the source code of GetX. I found many things for which I wouldn’t normally use GetX in any of my projects.

But, in my Reddit post, some people said I was wrong; they were more productive and delivering faster, etc. They argued that because I haven’t used it, I can’t judge, and my opinion is useless.

That’s why I’m going to write a small project with version ^5.0.0-release-candidate-9.2.1.

GetX is the first package on pub.dev when sorted by most likes. It has more than 14,000 likes and more than 10,000 stars on GitHub. However, most of the Flutter community will say that it’s a very bad package and it shouldn’t be used.

I was wondering if it was true or not. Maybe all the community is wrong. It’s the reason I cloned the GetX repo to understand the code and find out what’s bad.