How I Made Features in a Large Flutter App Actually Removable

"Just delete the features you don't need" is the easiest thing in the world to write in a README, and the hardest to make true. I hit this building a Flutter app with six verticals in one codebase — marketplace, ride-hailing, car rentals, social feed, chat, wallet. Deleting one should have been simple. It wasn't, because every feature had tendrils: a route in the central route table a tab hardcoded in the app shell a button on the home screen a service registered in main() Remove the feature folder and you get a wall of compile errors from files that have nothing to do with it. Here's what actually worked. Make three things data instead of code 1. Routes Each feature exposes its own routes from its own folder: class WalletModule extends AppModule { const WalletModule (); @override String get id = > 'wallet' ; @override List < GetPage > get pages = > [ GetPage ( name: AppRoutes . wallet , page: () = > const WalletScreen ()), ]; } The app's route table becomes a composition: static final routes = < GetPage >[ .. . _centralRoutes , .. . ModuleRegistry . pages , ]; Adding or removing a feature stops being an edit to a shared file. It's one line in a registry. 2. Bottom-navigation tabs This one surprised me. My app shell imported the feed widget directly: // before — the always-present shell depends on an optional feature import '../feed/feed_tab.dart' ; The shell ships in every build. That import meant the social feature could never be removed. So a tab became a small data class that a feature contributes: class ShellTab { final String id ; final int order ; // core tabs use 10/30/40 final IconData icon ; final String labelKey ; final Widget Function () builder ; } Social contributes its tab at order 20, slotting between home and alerts without the shell knowing it exists. The shell merges its own tabs with ModuleRegistry.shellTabs and sorts. 3. Entry points Home screens linked to feature screens with Get.toNamed(...) . Named routes are already decoupled — no import nee