Deprecate createModel(...)

[davidkpiano]

The createModel(...) function is now marked as deprecated, as it will be removed in XState version 5. It is recommended to use Typegen instead.

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[with-heart]

RIP createModel, you were a good experiment

[farskid]

Oh no 🙊

[gkiely]

@davidkpiano Typegen has never been reliable for me, it can never cover all the userland requirements and sometimes it just doesn't work.

Is there any other way to allow the typing that createModel allowed, it's a lot nicer than passing generics to the assign method and doesn't require reliance on an extension.

[davidkpiano]

@davidkpiano Typegen has never been reliable for me, it can never cover all the userland requirements and sometimes it just doesn't work.

Is there any other way to allow the typing that createModel allowed, it's a lot nicer than passing generics to the assign method and doesn't require reliance on an extension.

What specific things are you using createModel for besides assign?

[gkiely]

Nothing outside of assign.

Usually actions with assigns, typically invoked.

Example of what it looks like after the model:

[gkiely]

@davidkpiano After giving this some more thought, I've moved to using typescript narrowing which achieves the same thing.