Upgrade xstate to version 5.x

jredrejo commented 11 months ago

Overview

The xstate library kolibri uses for some of the kolibri processes has released a new version v5.x that adds some features but introduces some breaking changes with version 4.x .

We should apply those changes to kolibri code before upgrading to v5. Also some of the new features (use of can in guards or the fromPromise helper can improve current machines code)

Description and outcomes

To be done in a future 0.16 patch release

Resources

Webinar of using version 5 of xState
Xstate migration guide

### Tasks
- [ ] Follow migration guide from https://stately.ai/docs/migration
- [ ] Upgrade xstate in KDS
- [ ] https://github.com/learningequality/kolibri/issues/12646

davidkpiano commented 11 months ago

Please let me know if you need any help with this migration - willing to help!

MisRob commented 11 months ago

Thanks @davidkpiano, we appreciate it. Your library has been of such a great help for some of our complex workflows.

jredrejo commented 10 months ago

v5.4.1 is the current target

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