How do you collect a flow once in a non-blocking way, so it doesn't update when the flow updates?

# flow

[Sam Stone]

How do you collect a flow once in a non-blocking way, so it doesn't update when the flow updates?

[Michael Marshall]

Are you looking for the suspend function first()?

[Nick Allen]

Or maybe `StateFlow`/`stateIn` where you can just get the latest value?

[Sam Stone]

I think toCollection() accomplishes what I want?

[Nick Allen]

Yeah if you want all the items at once when the Flow finishes