Actions and actors

Learn about actions and actors in Stately Studio’s editor.

• Entry & exit actions

  An action can be fired upon entry or exit of a state. Actions are “fire-and-forget effects”; once the machine has fired the action, it moves on and forgets the action. You can also fire actions on transitions.

• Actors

  When you run a statechart, it becomes an actor: a running process that can receive messages, send messages and change its behavior based on the messages it receives, which can cause effects outside of the actor.