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xstate is a nice javascript library which even generates charts out of your defined states in your app: https://github.com/davidkpiano/xstate https://github.com

• restore24 9y ago
  Similarly, I have a early-stage JS library for hierarchical statecharts. It revolves around nested contexts and an explicit message passing interface for controlling states between parent/child/sibling. Example: https://github.com/jdque/royal/blob/master/test.js https://github.com/jdque/royal/blob/master/test.js
  • mpfundstein 9y ago
    off-topic but why do you use 'let' instead of 'const'? In royal.ts you do that all the time even though you variables don't change! Is there a reason for that?
    • braythwayt 9y ago
      I have no idea why they did it, but I have argued for quite some time that const has very little practical value, because its effect is always lexical and local. To demonstrate that this is so, I suggest that we can write a processor that converts all lets to consts where possible. I also demonstrate that this is so by asking, "What bug will const catch that our tests will not catch?" _Immutable Data_, on the other hand, is marvellous. Immutability has nonlocal effects, and it is not something that can be trivially verified.
      • mpfundstein 9y ago
        I agree with your assessment, but for me it is a message from the programmer to the reader. Hey this value will not be re-assigned during the following scope block. If I see a let, I know I must be careful. Of course this doesn't apply to properties of objects ... which is a pity!
• davidkpiano 9y ago
  Thanks! I have some awesome updates to announce very soon!