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A Complete Introduction to State Machines in JavaScript

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One of the most compelling changes I’ve made in my approach to web development came when I introduced state machines and statecharts in my applications.

I first started building things for the web in the late 90s, when I was about 11 or 12 years old. For the first several years, I mostly spent my time building sites dedicated to videogames that I was playing. At the time, Microsoft FrontPage was my tool of choice. As time went on, the sites I wanted to build started to grow in complexity — I wanted to add blog posts and forums and the like. As a result, FrontPage gave way to using Notepad and learning my way around PHP and JavaScript. With each step in my evolution as a developer, I’ve learned to build increasingly complex websites and applica

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