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FlowLite — a lightweight way to manage state in .NET without the pain
- Managing state transitions in .NET applications can be complex and error-prone, especially in domain-heavy, event-driven, or workflow-oriented systems.
- Challenges include scattered logic across services, lack of structure without a native FSM library in .NET, difficult testing, concurrency issues, and missing auditability.
- FlowLite was built to address these challenges by offering a modern FSM engine that is lightweight, fast, developer-friendly, and testable.
- Key features of FlowLite include flexible configuration, asynchronous and thread-safe transition execution, custom logic hooks, persistence support, and cycle prevention.
- FlowLite supports declarative API, state persistence, event hooks, error handling, and flexible configuration for state transitions.
- To get started with FlowLite, one can define states and triggers, create entity classes, and configure state transitions using the FlowTransitionBuilder.
- FlowLite offers easy trigger validation, transition logic execution, state updates, and optional entry and exit logic for smooth state transitions.
- FlowLite.Diagnostics and FlowLite.Testing provide additional logging, telemetry, and testing capabilities for FSMs, enhancing observability, and testing structure.
- FlowLite.Diag is a tool for visualizing FSM state transitions, and the future roadmap includes ASP.NET Core Middleware integration, undo/rollback support, and sub-state machine support.
- In conclusion, FlowLite offers a clean, testable, and performant way to manage state transitions in .NET applications, improving code maintainability and observability.
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