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If anyone's tempted to visit, the home page is in French. Click on "Chiffrer un produit" and you're into the configurator which has English translation (top right). All the magic i…

https://simplyfirst.fr . We're off and running, making the world's best configurators for complex products. Our first clients love us. Our configurators implement some very persona…

This is worth meditating! The American empire, like the British before it and the other european while we're at it, are flashes in the pan compared to the Romans, the Byzantines, t…

Good suggestion.

I like and use MobX. I "come from" Vue, and I like mutability (though I concede its dangers). For my needs, the limitation was reactions. In mobx, reactions shouldn't update other …

So xstate implements state machines. This is quite a different concept from DAGs, though there may be a DAG underneath. This isn't mentionned anywhere though. The concepts you work…

I looked at and rejected state machines, because I didn't like/understand the need for the formalism of defining every possible state.

That looks really remarkable.

I'm not doing this for fun. Especially since I'm fundamentally lazy (and more of a practitioner than a comp-sci person). I'm looking at custom configurators for complex made-to-mea…

Are you talking about this? https://patents.google.com/patent/US7865872B2/en

I put a concrete example in the sample app. "pizza" depends on "size" and "base". So a DAG, as you point out, is less constraining than a tree. When you shoehorn your state and orc…

That sounds very cool indeed.

No. Signals work with a weak map of references, not a graph. So in my Pizza example, when pizza changes, totalPrice would recalculate twice: once on a signal from pizza, once on a …

That looks interesting, and totally new to me. Thanks.

Have a look at the node code. It's biblically simple. I would say it's much simpler than any comparable solution. You can forget about reducers, thunks, computed, even useState, us…

The graph framing is essential. I use typescript graph libraries for the topological sort and for the visualization. I did much less work than either of those two libraries !

As I've just written above, React components form a tree that mirrors the DOM. A graph is a much better fit. Nodes in my DAG ressemble "computed" in Vue, where they watch a value a…

It's very different. Your react components are organized in a tree that mirrors your DOM. If you're using React without an additional state management package, you need to hoist yo…

Directed acyclic graphs are muched discussed in comp-sci, but octopus appears to be the first reusable, turnkey, ready-to-wear, off-the-shelf implementation of a DAG for applicatio…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_the_widow%27s_mite

Cone looks fantastic. You're going to make me buy an IPhone.

Sorry for the trouble you had to go through to get there, but that looks really useful.

I found state management too boilerplatey and full of concepts. I thought the distinction between state and computed was unhelpful, and I thought the methods were all over the plac…

Tis a little disconcerting to see master called master. I thought we'd all changed that?