3 posts tagged with "Tutorial"

You want to build a task manager. Simple CRUD: create, read, update, delete. The traditional way costs you roughly 5,000 lines across 40+ files. The .orb way: 120 lines in one file. This is not a theoretical estimate. Let's count both sides.

What if you defined your entire application in a single file before writing any component code? Not just the database model, but the state machines, the UI structure, the routes, and the business rules. That is how .orb works: write the schema, validate it, compile it, run it.

State machines are the foundation of every .orb program. Every trait contains one, and the compiler enforces that they are well-formed. This post explains what a state machine is in .orb and walks through a concrete example.