🎭 UI Troupe

🚧 This is a work in progress! 🚧

Please consider this as an proof of concept, not intended for production usage

Description

UI Troupe is a minimal view-agnostic front-end application structure that leverages the actor model and statecharts in order to build predictable UIs.

Installing

Using npm

npm install --save ui-troupe xstate

Using yarn

yarn add ui-troupe xstate

Credits

The implementation of this package is inspired by the following prior art in the JavaScript ecosystem:

• 🎥 Architecting Web Apps - Lights, Camera, Action! (Chrome Dev Summit 2018)
• 🎥 David Khourshid - Everything is an Actor
• MobX
• UI as an afterthought
• React Fiber Architecture Notes

More Resources

• 📝 The actor model in 10 minutes
• 📄 ACTORS: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems (Gul Agha)
• 📄 A Universal Modular ACTOR Formalism for Artificial Intelligence (Carl Hewitt et. al.