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  1. Behavior & Boundaries / Part 4

    Functional Core Architecture: Where Deterministic Decisions Belong

    How building an Ignite Element router with the browser's Navigation API led me to separate semantic commands, deterministic route policy, and environment effects.

    8 min read

  2. Behavior & Boundaries / Part 3

    Semantic Commands: Translating User Intent into Application Behavior

    How to translate a product narrative into a precise application request without carrying interface details into behavior.

    9 min read

  3. Behavior & Boundaries / Part 2

    Product Framing Before Software Design: Deciding What to Build

    How I use a product frame as the maintainer of Ignite Element, and how developers can apply the same questions to problems for their own clients and users.

    10 min read

  4. Behavior & Boundaries / Part 1

    AI-Generated Code and Software Architecture: Why Ownership Matters

    How AI-assisted development shifts the difficult work from producing code to deciding which part of the system should own each decision.

    10 min read

BUILT IN THE OPEN

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ignite-element

A production-grade library for building statechart-driven UI components.

  • Web-component-first integration for statecharts and actors
  • Explicit behavior boundaries, testable by design
  • Used to build real interfaces, not demos

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THE AUTHOR

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Jose Flores

Jose Flores

Software Engineer • Technical Advisor

I make behavior explicit so teams can ship complex systems with confidence.

  • Statecharts
  • Actor Model
  • TypeScript
  • Independent software engineer and technical advisor.
  • Statecharts and actor model specialist in TypeScript.
  • Open-source maintainer: Actor-Web, Ignite-Element.
  • Focus areas: architecture, delivery, developer experience.
  • Make behavior explicit, testable, and easy to evolve.
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EXPLORE WORK

Routes for learning, building, and collaborating.

Writing

Systems, delivery, and behavior-driven architecture. Notes on architecture, statecharts, and delivery.

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Open Source

Actor-Web, Ignite-Element, and other projects I maintain.

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Start here: When Code Becomes Cheap → Why architecture matters now

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