Flutter - run a function every time the page changes

Question

I want to run a function every time the page changes in my Flutter application.

Ideally, I don't want to call this function in initState of every page, as sometimes people can forget to add the call in a new page.

Think of it as middleware - be basically before the page loads etc, some code needs to run.

Updated code for review

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter_secure_storage/flutter_secure_storage.dart';
import 'package:myapp/pages/login_page.dart';
import 'package:myapp/pages/dashboard_page.dart';
import 'package:myapp/styles/constants.dart';
import 'package:myapp/services/auth_service.dart';

Future<void> main() async {
  // create a auth service instance
  AuthService authService = AuthService(secureStorage: FlutterSecureStorage());
  bool isLoggedIn = await authService.isUserLoggedIn();

  // run the app
  runApp(MyApp(
    isLoggedIn: isLoggedIn,
  ));
}

class MyApp extends StatefulWidget {
  final bool isLoggedIn;

  MyApp({this.isLoggedIn});

  @override
  _MyAppState createState() => _MyAppState();
}

class _MyAppState extends State<MyApp> with RouteAware {
  final RouteObserver<PageRoute> routeObserver = RouteObserver<PageRoute>();

  @override
  void didChangeDependencies() {
    super.didChangeDependencies();
    routeObserver.subscribe(this, ModalRoute.of(context));
  }

  @override
  void dispose() {
    routeObserver.unsubscribe(this);
    super.dispose();
  }

  @override
  void didPush() {
    print('didPush');
  }

  @override
  void didPopNext() {
    print('didPopNext');
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      title: 'App NAME',
      theme: ThemeData(
        primarySwatch: Colors.green,
        primaryColor: kPrimeColour,
      ),
      home: widget.isLoggedIn == true ? DashboardPage() : LoginPage(),
      navigatorObservers: [routeObserver],
    );
  }
}

Answer 1

You can use implementation method didChangeDependencies this function called after initState,

flutter doc :

Subclasses rarely override this method because the framework always calls build after a dependency changes. Some subclasses do override this method because they need to do some expensive work (e.g., network fetches) when their dependencies change, and that work would be too expensive to do for every build.

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    @override
    void didChangeDependencies() {
      super.didChangeDependencies();
      // set your stuff here 
      }