Why "useMachine" does not work on a service?

[phcoliveira]

Hello there!

I understand that the usage of useMachine on a component is useful for not handling these steps: interpreting, starting the machine, subscribing, updating the state and stopping the machine once the component is destroyed.

But why should it not be possible to do it on a service as well? Yeah, the service is a long-lived singleton that does not get destroyed. But all the other steps before mentioned are still a valid concern to address.

Is there a technical reason for not performing such steps on a service?

[phcoliveira]

Or a controller, if also not possible.

[phcoliveira]

False alarm. It does work with a controller. I just didn't invoke inspect before the service was initialized.