Our team knew early on that users needed the ability to share machines in the Studio and build on each other’s work. We also needed the Studio to be an effective tool for teams to work together and share context. But how do we do that safely, making sure the right eyes were on the right machines? And how do we protect against accidental mishaps that have plagued devs since the dawn of the computer? Being a distributed dev team ourselves, we’ve shared these same pain points and decided to build a solution directly in the Studio. Enter Stately teams, our way to provide privacy and safety while allowing effortless collaboration.

The Stately team has had another busy week. The editor now has event schemas, and we’ve made many more improvements. Let’s dig in!

We’ve released many new features recently, but we’ve also made minor enhancements and bug fixes to improve your Stately experience.

As software architecture grows increasingly complex, developers and project managers often grapple with the challenge of visualizing and organizing application logic. This is where state machines and flows come into play. State machines are a powerful tool for modeling application logic, and flows are a great way to visualize and organize state machines. At Stately, we’re committed to making state machines and flows more accessible and easier to use.

But state machines, though powerful, have a learning curve that can be a bit intimidating. And then there’s the blank slate problem: where do you even start when modeling a flow? Furthermore, when flows get large, how can you apply broad changes in a more natural way while keeping the flow intact and logically correct? These are some of the challenges we set out to solve with our new experimental generative features.

New generative features​

In response to these challenges, we are thrilled to introduce two experimental beta features:

• The ability to generate a flow from plain text
• The ability to modify an existing flow from plain text

As a Stately Pro user, you can now auto-create machines from text descriptions with our new experimental feature, Generate flow. You can generate a flow for a new machine or use the flow description to describe how you want to modify your current flow.

Yet another new Pro feature for you this week: you can now lock machines to prevent accidental edits. Lock a machine using the lock icon button in the machine Details panel.

This week, the Stately team has been hard at work with even more bug fixes and improvements.

You can now choose to export state and event descriptions and meta fields with your exported code.

The Stately team has been doing a lot of live streams lately, covering the front-end, back-end, and everything new in the Stately editor.

Our new Learn Stately guidance got its own changelog this week, but there’s more that’s new to Stately.