13 posts tagged with “state machines”

WebinarGeek leans on Stately tooling to manage the inherent complexities in building the best user-friendly webinar platform on the internet.

The term "robots" invokes a fascinating range of ideas, from manually controlled machines to automated software that crawls the web. One of the prime examples in this area is robotic arms, traditionally used to aid and extend the reach of humans in manufacturing, surgery, and space exploration. Each of these use cases require some way of programming and controlling the arm to perform their dedicated task, usually with proprietary software developed by the manufacturer. The UI is tightly coupled to the hardware through a touchscreen device or desktop application physically connected to the arm, which makes it tough to put online securely and using modern technology.

Viam provides an open source software stack and set of cloud services that makes managing all types of robots (and other smart machines) accessible to developers without any prior hardware experience. To help demonstrate the types of experience that can be built with Viam, the developer advocacy team built an arcade claw game that used an industrial robot arm and arcade claw that could be operated using a single-page web application powered by TypeScript SDK.

We recently announced the release of XState v5! During its beta phase, we created a migration guide, specifically to call out breaking changes and to give developers onging updates regarding API changes. This post is a walkthrough of migrating existing XState machines from v4 to v5 and is intended to be more of a step-by-step companion to the migration guide. It also focuses on migrating XState machines that are using TypeScript.

We already kicked off 2024 with several major updates to Stately such as inspecting live XState code, syncing with GitHub, and writing code for actions and actors in the Studio. Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve also launched an integration with Figma!

You can now attach Figma frames to states in Stately.

State machines and visual diagrams are such a powerful way to organize, and convey information. All of those lovely “boxes and arrows” convey meaningful relationships, indicate sequential order, and direct flows in a way that’s easier to understand since it's visual. Add to that the ability to attach assets to your diagrams and you’re well on your way towards creating truly expressive, executable software diagrams. But there’s still one thing that state machines have that should make them easy to understand. Text.

We’re excited to share a feature that unlocks a whole new level of power and flexibility in Stately’s editor: sources. With sources, you can now provide implementation source code for your actions, actors, and guards, making syncing between the editor and your codebase a breeze.

TIDEFI turns to Stately to build a resilient financial platform that prioritizes user-friendly transactions and investments.

The Stately team had the pleasure of sitting down with Parker McMullin, Senior Frontend Lead at TIDEFI, to discuss how our logic modeling and visualization tooling helped him manage app complexity and onboarding in TIDEFI’s financial services platform. Parker was so kind as to provide his experiences below, covering the very beginnings of his project from design to development as well as the challenges encountered and how other Stately users came to his aid. He shares his firsthand experiences applying modern software design patterns to his project, engaging with the technical community, and proving instrumental in shaping the direction of XState V5. We’re honored to have Parker in our community, and we hope his words can inspire teams to better navigate complexity in their own apps!

In the always-changing world of digital signage for modern businesses, Fugo turns to Stately's tooling to tackle complex application logic, ensuring robust IOT systems and seamless communication across design concerns in an industry where reliability is key.

Today, we’re happy to finally release XState v5! This is a new major version of XState focusing on actors and helping you get started with XState faster and more easily than previous versions.

State machine transitions may take zero time, but transitioning from XState v4 to v5 took a long time. We released XState v4 in October 2018 and have been working on the next major version of XState for most of the years since. With over 25k stars on GitHub, 1 million weekly downloads on npm, and an amazing community, we’ve been able to listen to and learn from those using XState in production and create a version that is more powerful yet simpler (and smaller!) than ever before.

When it came to navigating the complexities of business context and application state, Koordinates found their solution in Stately's tools, reshaping their coding practices and ensuring a seamless user experience.