David Khourshid
Special guest
Founder of Stately and creator of XState.
David Khourshid has been a guest on 4 episodes.
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Goodbye, useState with David Khourshid
July 22nd, 2025 | Season 4 | 36 mins 54 secs
react
David Khourshid, founder of Stately.ai, joins us to discuss better ways to manage complex state in React applications. We explore the pitfalls of overusing useState, how discriminated unions and state machines improve app logic, the role of server components, and the growing importance of query strings and persistent state management. He also shares insights on modern third-party libraries, React’s missing "store" primitive, and when developers should rethink their entire approach to state modeling.
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useWat with David Khourshid
November 27th, 2023 | Season 3 | 46 mins 48 secs
react
David Khourshid, founder of Stately, talks about the “weird stuff” in React and how developers can better utilize the framework and understand its quirks.
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Intelligent state management with David Khourshid
May 25th, 2023 | Season 3 | 26 mins 10 secs
intelligent state management
David Khourshid, founder of Stately AI and creator of XState, comes on to talk about how developers can make their state management more intelligent.
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XState with David Khourshid
October 15th, 2021 | Season 1 | 21 mins 24 secs
frontend development, frontend engineering, javascript, software engineering, tech, technology, typescript, web development
XState is a framework-agnostic library for creating and using state machines and statecharts. Learn more by listening to our interview with David Khourshid, creator of XState.