Art of the state machine

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Amal, Nick & special guest Laura Kalbeg geek out over the remarkable growth and evolution of the XState project and its team in recent years. Laura also tells everyone about Stately.ai, a SaaS platform that uses AI to create seamless state management solutions compatible with various tools like XState, Redux & zustand.

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Featuring:

• Laura Kalbag – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• XState JS Party debut w/ David “Piano” - X’ gon State it to ya (#191)
• Stately
• XState
• Jump straight into the Stately editor - via state.new (fancy!)
• Laura’s talk where she demoed state machines and the outputted state machine
• All the public machines that folks have made using Stately (must be logged in)
• An intro to state machines and statecharts (with puppies!)
• Laura’s awesome book via Book Apart - Accessibility for Everyone
• NodeConf EU
• NodeConf EU talks from 2023 (workshops were live only)
• The amazing NodeConf EU venue we were ooo’ing and aaah’ing about 😍
• Laura’s NodeConf Talk
• Accessibility for Everyone
• Migrate to XState 5
• Actor Model
• Model-based testing
• Playwright
• Stately Discord
• Redux Toolkit
• zustand

And here’s the state chart for the JS Danger game!

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Hello, friends (00:00:56)

3. Welcoming Laura to the show (00:03:28)

4. State [machines|mgmt] (00:12:36)

5. Sponsor: Changelog News (00:26:02)

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6. On Stately tho (00:27:46)

7. 17 flavors of Redux (00:32:36)

8. Actor model groundwork (00:36:28)

9. The evolution of Stately (00:42:35)

10. Obligatory testing question (00:52:02)

11. The deployment flow (00:54:53)

12. Versioning state machines (00:58:45)

13. Stately is coming for Nick's job (01:00:31)

14. All the plans (01:04:17)

15. Connecting with Laura (01:11:15)

16. Next up on the pod (01:12:25)

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