Web App Actors

README.md

Web App Actors

Video

Architecting Web Apps - Lights, Camera, Action! (Chrome Dev Summit 2018)

Repositories

• actor-helpers (foundation)
• actor-boilerplate (shell)

Blog Posts

• “An Actor, a model and an architect walk onto the web...”
• The 9am rush hour
• Lights, Camera, Action!
• Headless Web Development
• When should you be using Web Workers?
• Is postMessage slow?

See also

• “I'm sorry that I long ago coined the term objects for this topic because it gets many people to focus on the lesser idea. The big idea is messaging” Alan Kay, 1998

A Quest to Guarantee Responsiveness: Scheduling On and Off the Main Thread (Chrome Dev Summit 2018)

The main thread is overworked & underpaid (Chrome Dev Summit 2019)

• Use web workers to run JavaScript off the browser's main thread

• React + Redux + Comlink = Off-main-thread

RubyConf 2019 - No Return: Beyond Transactions in Code and Life by Avdi Grimm

• Redux is half of a pattern (1/2)

• Redux is half of a pattern (2/2)

• You don't need a library for state machines

• XActor