It’s been just over a month since we released Stately Studio 1.0, and the team has barely slowed down! We’ve got more features live in the Studio today and even more planned before the end of the year.
If you’re new to the Stately Studio, state machines or statecharts, we have the videos for you! Our new Stately Studio tutorials playlist on YouTube features bite-size videos to help you get started with understanding statecharts and state machines, and start modeling in the Stately Studio.
We’re excited to announce the release of Stately Studio 1.0! 🚀 Our mission is for all app logic to be visually collaborative and accessible to your entire team, and we’ve been working hard to make that a reality.
The Stately team has got some huge features to share with you soon. We’ve been working hard through the summer, which is why we’re already halfway into September by the time I’ve gotten around to this update post.
Farzad and David add more features to their resizable panel using XState and React. Watch Part 1.
Check out the accompanying code on Code Sandbox.
Farzad and David use XState to build the logic for a resizable panel with React in an impromptu live stream.
Check out the accompanying code on CodeSandbox.
From fetching data to fighting with imperative APIs, side effects are one of the biggest sources of frustration in web app development. And let’s be honest, putting everything in useEffect hooks doesn’t help much.
Thankfully, there is a science (well, math) to side effects, formalized in state machines and statecharts, that can help us visually model and understand how to declaratively orchestrate effects, no matter how complex they get. In this talk, David ditches the useEffect hook and discovers how these computer science principles can be used to simplify effects in our React apps.
Using the XState extension for VS Code, you can create a state machine in seconds and edit the machine using our visual editor. Use the xsm snippet to quickly generate the code required for your state machine, then drag and drop inside our visual editor to rapidly model your machine.
Updates to our VS Code extension
Our XState VS Code extension has now been installed 10k times! Install the extension yourself from inside VS Code or find the XState extension on the Open VSX Registry to enjoy the following new features.
Are you a React developer using XState to model your application logic? Perhaps you’ve heard of XState but have been looking for an easy way to try it out in one of your projects. If so, then I’d like to share with you a pattern I was introduced to when first diving into codebase at Stately, that of using custom machine hooks. This lightweight, reusable way to integrate XState into React components is a delight to work with and I think you might like it as much as I do!