StateBacked.dev CLI - launch an XState backend in 5 minutes

StateBacked.dev runs XState machines as your secure, scalable, serverless backend.

Check out the full State Backed docs for more detailed information and to get started with your own XState backend as a service.

5 minute quick start

$ npm install -g smply
$ smply machines create --machine toggler --node ./toggler.ts # toggler.ts as below
$ # You can now launch instances of your toggler machine, send events, and read state!

your-frontend.ts

import { StateBackedClient } from "@statebacked/client";
import { useMachine } from "@statebacked/react";
import { useActor } from "@xstate/react";

// setting up a client that authenticates by exchanging your existing identity provider's
// token (e.g. Auth0, Supabase, Cognito, etc) for a State Backed token.
// 0 server-side code required for end-to-end secure authorization.
const client = new StateBackedClient({
  identityProviderToken: () => getYourAuthProviderToken(),
  orgId: "org_...", // from `smply orgs list`
  tokenProviderService: "your-app", // configured with `smply token-providers upsert`
});

// you can also mint your own State Backed token and use:
// const client = new StateBackedClient({ token });

export const YourReactComponent = () => {
  // reads or creates an instance of 'your-machine' named 'instance-name' and
  // establishes a real-time connection to retrieve state updates as they happen
  // this means multiplayer use cases are easy and *identical* to single-player.
  // pass template arguments for a strongly-typed actor.
  const { actor } = useMachine("your-machine", "instance-name");

  if (!actor) {
    // actor is loading
    return null;
  }

  return <InnerComponent actor={actor} />;
};

export const InnerComponent = ({ actor }) => {
  // use your persistent, cloud actor just as you would a local state machine
  const [state, send] = useActor(actor);

  // state is synced in real-time from your cloud machine instance

  return (
    <div>
      In state: {state.value}
      <button
        onClick={() => {
          // send events to your cloud instance just as you would a local machine
          send("say-hi");
        }}
      >
        Say hi!
      </button>
    </div>
  );
};

toggler.ts

import { createMachine } from "xstate";
import type { AllowRead, AllowWrite } from "@statebacked/machine";

// super simple authorization
// authContext comes from a JWT that you create with your user's information,
// signed with one of your State Backed keys (generate a key via `smply keys create`)
export allowRead: AllowRead = ({ machineInstanceName, authContext }) =>
  machineInstanceName === authContext.sub

export allowWrite: AllowWrite = ({ machineInstanceName, authContext }) =>
  machineInstanceName === authContext.sub

// export any XState state machine with any guards, actions, or services and any delays.
// just make sure that no service runs for more than 10 seconds.
export default createMachine({
  predictableActionArguments: true,
  initial: "on",
  states: {
    on: {
      on: {
        toggle: "off",
      },
    },
    off: {
      on: {
        toggle: "on",
      },
    },
  },
});