xstate VS awesome-workflow-engines

XState is a powerful library with comprehensive documentation. Keeping the documentation handy while building your next app with XState will be invaluable.

XState is an excellent library that simplifies the utilization of actors in JavaScript applications. While this article focuses on using React, these principles apply equally well to other frameworks. In fact, they can be implemented anywhere JavaScript is executed.

In this article, I want to share a personal journey of discovery in the world of state management. My path led me to XState, a tool that I believe is the best choice for managing state in modern applications like React, Angular, Vue, and others. This isn't just a professional advice; it's a personal recommendation based on real-world experience.

You add the current user state to a React Context or state management library, read from it on the top bar, and write to it after a user signs in. Done. No big deal, right?

Lastly, I know that I've omitted many great tools like XState, React Query, and SWR. These tools are utilities that are very scalable in their own right, but aren't full replacements for a good state manager.

I've come across this list, but I'm uncertain about which option would suit my requirements without going through a trial-and-error process. Do you have any recommendations for a tool similar to "Postman flows" that enables the creation of chained HTTP requests and allows for response analysis?

True, there are many options out there. And we looked at a good number before we made the decision to build one ourselves. But at least at the time (circa 2014), many of the existing options were either not designed for a distributed environment, were designed more particularly for data-processing use cases, were seemingly abandoned, or simply felt over-engineered to our taste.

I'd say give Temporal (https://temporal.io) a look, but there are a lot of options (https://github.com/meirwah/awesome-workflow-engines).

I believe the type of software you're looking for is a workflow engine. I've found this list of them, perhaps there's some in the list that could work for your needs: https://github.com/meirwah/awesome-workflow-engines

https://github.com/meirwah/awesome-workflow-engines links to a bunch of open source workflow engines. If you don’t find a tutorial, maybe try one of those and see if the code is small enough to read easily.

[2] https://github.com/meirwah/awesome-workflow-engines