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Dev tools · October 8, 2024

Actor Kit – XState Machines for Cloudflare Workers

Actor Kit is a library for running state machines in Cloudflare Workers, leveraging XState for robust state management. It provides a framework for managing the logic, lifecycle, persistence, synchronization, and access control of actors in a distributed environment. Key features include: - Persistent, distributed state management - Type-safe events and state with TypeScript and Zod - Real-time updates and seamless server-to-client state transfer - Access control and secure data management - Framework-agnostic with examples for Next.js and Remix integration - Actor lifecycle management in…

Actor Kit – XState Machines for Cloudflare Workers launched on October 8, 2024 with 6 votes, #1,611 of 5,185 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

A TypeScript library for building real-time, event-driven applications with XState and Cloudflare Workers. Seamlessly manage distributed state machines and actor-based systems. - actor-kit/actor-kit

In the maker’s words, at launch

Actor Kit is a library for running state machines in Cloudflare Workers, leveraging XState for robust state management. It provides a framework for managing the logic, lifecycle, persistence, synchronization, and access control of actors in a distributed environment. Key features include: - Persistent, distributed…

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