32 posts tagged with “stately”

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.

It’s been about a year since we’ve released Stately Studio 1.0, and a lot has happened. Stately Studio is essentially a visual software modeling tool that strives to make it easy to create, manage, and use state machines, no matter how complex they may get. Primarily, it served as a powerful set of devtools for XState (an open-source library for creating state machines, statecharts and actors in JavaScript and TypeScript). You could import XState code to a state diagram, modify it visually in an intuitive drag-and-drop canvas, and export to XState. Eventually, we added more export options: JSON, Markdown, Mermaid diagrams, and stories.

But Stately Studio has bigger ambitions than just being a suite of devtools for XState. We’ve frequently heard that these state diagrams are an important source of truth for critical app logic, serving as documentation for the entire team that stays up-to-date with your code. But a reliable source of truth for app logic is a need for all apps, not just those that use state machines directly.

That’s why we’re so excited to release Stately Studio 2.0, which aims to meet developers where they are, no matter which libraries, frameworks, or even languages they use. There are many benefits to modeling app logic with state diagrams and the actor model, and we want to enable developers to take advantage of those benefits to build more robust, feature-rich, and maintainable app logic faster.

The Stately team is very excited to announce a new feature we’ve been working on for quite some time! Join us in welcoming Stately Sky to the Studio. Lovingly built with PartyKit, Sky is our new serverless platform for running workflows within the Studio. With Sky, users may now run their statecharts as live machines in minutes, complete with XState v5 actors and multiplayer support.

The Stately team has been doing a lot of live streams lately, covering the front-end, back-end, and everything new in the Stately editor.

We’ve just released a new way for new users to learn Stately. We know that the learning curve is one of the biggest challenges you face when adopting state machines in your teams. We’ve designed our Learn Stately guidance and accompanying tutorials to introduce the basic concepts of state machines, demonstrate how to build them, simulate them, export them to code, and implement them with the exported code.

We’ve recently launched a huge Stately release, and we covered it all (as well as some even newer features!) in our latest office hours live stream.

Sometimes you want to share a machine with descriptive details or comments, so we’ve added annotations to Stately Studio.

Tomorrow is part four in our popular Stately Stream series, where we are modeling a semi-complex client-side app using XState, Stately Studio, React and TypeScript. You can catch up on the previous videos in the series below or watch all our past videos in our Stately Streams YouTube playlist.