🚀 Introduction #

This is the first official release of LIVO — Live Objects.

LIVO is a rebranded and clarified continuation of the reactive_orm package. The rename was done to remove confusion around the term ORM and to better represent the package’s true purpose as a model-driven state management system.

🔄 Why the Rename? #

The previous name reactive_orm was often misunderstood as a database ORM, even though the package is:

• Fully in-memory
• UI-focused
• Designed for Flutter state management
• Centered around reactive Dart models and relationships

LIVO (Live Objects) more accurately reflects the core idea:

Application state lives inside live, reactive objects that automatically keep the UI in sync.

✨ Features Included #

• ReactiveModel base class
• Object-level reactivity (watch)
• Field-level reactivity (watchField)
• Computed / derived reactivity (watchComputed)
• ReactiveList and ReactiveMap collections
• Nested and shared reactive models
• One → Many relationships
• Many ↔ Many relationships
• Automatic change propagation across object graphs
• Debug inspection utilities
• Minimal boilerplate
• No code generation
• No ChangeNotifier, providers, or streams required

🧩 Migration from reactive_orm #

Migration is straightforward and non-breaking in terms of behavior.

Dependency change:

- reactive_orm
+ livo