Proposal for this year's Reactive lightning talks @ReactiveConf - If you want to see my talk, star this gist please :-) [Reactive Blogpost][reactive-conference-blogpost]
As a JavaScript developer, could you imagine using something else than Atom, Sublime or other IDE-like text-editors? During their daily work, people wrangle a lot with different applications, editors, windows, browsers and loose a lot of time because of their tools getting in their way.
State machines are everywhere in interactive systems, but they're rarely defined clearly and explicitly. Given some big blob of code including implicit state machines, which transitions are possible and under what conditions? What effects take place on what transitions?
There are existing design patterns for state machines, but all the patterns I've seen complect side effects with the structure of the state machine itself. Instances of these patterns are difficult to test without mocking, and they end up with more dependencies. Worse, the classic patterns compose poorly: hierarchical state machines are typically not straightforward extensions. The functional programming world has solutions, but they don't transpose neatly enough to be broadly usable in mainstream languages.
Here I present a composable pattern for pure state machiness with effects,