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Created June 2, 2017 16:25 — forked from ericelliott/manifest.json
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{
"name": "My Progressive Web Application",
"short_name": "Progressive",
"start_url": "/?home=true",
"icons": [
{
"src": "/icons/icon36.png",
"sizes": "36x36",
"type": "image/png"
},

Fundamentals: why state machines?

States. The final frontier. These are the voyages of an enterprising developer. Her eternal mission: to explore strange new techniques, to seek out better ways to engineer for mental models and new design patterns. To boldly go where a few awesome devs have gone before.

So you’ve found our poignant guide to SCXML and surely you’re wondering “Why should I want to go out of my way to use formal state machines?” or something like that. Hopefully this introduction addresses that kind of question.

An example: Nancy’s RPG

The problem