xstate-codegen

Type Safe State Machines

xstate-codegen gives you 100% type-safe usage of XState in Typescript. You get type safety on:

• Transition targets: on: {EVENT: 'deep.nested.state'}
• Services
• Guards
• Activities
• Actions
• The initial attribute
• state.matches('deep.nested.state')

This works by introspecting your machine in situ in your code. With this Thanos-level power, we can click our fingers and give you 100% type safety in your state machines.

Usage

CLI

xstate-codegen "src/**/**.machine.ts"

Inside code

Instead of importing createMachine or Machine from xstate, import them from @xstate/compiled:

import { createMachine } from '@xstate/compiled';

const machine = createMachine();

You must pass three type options to createMachine/Machine:

1. The desired shape of your machine's context
2. The list of events your machine accepts, typed in a discriminated union (type Event = { type: 'GO' } | { type: 'STOP' };)
3. A string ID for your machine, unique to your project.

For instance:

import { Machine } from '@xstate/compiled';

interface Context {}

type Event = { type: 'DUMMY_TYPE' };

const machine = Machine<Context, Event, 'uniqueId'>({});

Options

Once

xstate-codegen "src/**/**.machine.ts" --once

By default, the CLI watches for changes in your files. Running --once runs the CLI only once.

Out Dir

xstate-codegen "src/**/**.machine.ts" --outDir="src"

By default, the CLI adds the required declaration files inside node_modules at node_modules/@xstate/compiled. This writes the declaration files to a specified directory.

Note, this only writes the declaration files to the directory. The .js files still get written to node_modules/@xstate/compiled.