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!