FlowSteps

A flexible, type-safe workflow automation library for Node.js.

Features

🚀 Core Capabilities

• Step-based workflow execution
• Conditional branching
• Parallel execution
• Type-safe context passing

⚡ Advanced Features

• Input validation (Zod integration)
• Retry mechanisms with backoff strategies
• Built-in metrics collection
• Lifecycle hooks
• Error handling and recovery

Installation

npm install flowsteps

Quick Start

import { Workflow, WorkflowContext } from "flowsteps";

interface OnboardingContext extends WorkflowContext {
  userId: string;
  email: string;
  userProfile?: {
    name: string;
    preferences: {
      theme: "light" | "dark";
      newsletter: boolean;
    };
  };
  welcomeEmailSent?: boolean;
  analyticsTracked?: boolean;
  error?: string;
}

const onboardingWorkflow = new Workflow<OnboardingContext>({
  name: "user-onboarding",
  hooks: {
    onError: ({ error, stepName }) => {
      console.error(`Error during ${stepName}:`, error);
    },
  },
})
  .addStep({
    fn: async ({ context }) => {
      context.userProfile = {
        name: context.email.split("@")[0],
        preferences: {
          theme: "light",
          newsletter: true,
        },
      };
    },
    config: { name: "create-profile" },
  })
  .addStep({
    fn: async ({ context }) => {
      await sendWelcomeEmail(context.email, context.userProfile);
      context.welcomeEmailSent = true;
    },
    config: {
      name: "send-welcome-email",
      retries: { maxAttempts: 2, backoff: { type: "fixed", delay: 2000 } },
    },
  })
  .addStep({
    fn: async ({ context }) => {
      await trackSignup(context.userId, context.userProfile);
      context.analyticsTracked = true;
    },
    config: { name: "track-analytics" },
  });

const result = await onboardingWorkflow.execute({
  context: {
    userId: "user_123",
    email: "[e-mail]",
  },
});

Core Concepts

Conditional Branching

Create dynamic workflows with condition-based execution paths:

workflow.addCondition({
  branches: [
    {
      name: "premium-user",
      condition: ({ context }) => context.userData?.isPremium,
      workflow: premiumWorkflow,
    },
    {
      name: "regular-user",
      condition: ({ context }) => !context.userData?.isPremium,
      workflow: regularWorkflow,
    },
  ],
});

Parallel Execution

Run multiple workflows concurrently for improved performance:

const mainWorkflow = new Workflow().parallel([
  notificationWorkflow,
  dataProcessingWorkflow,
  analyticsWorkflow,
]);

Input Validation

Ensure data integrity with Zod schema validation:

import { z } from "zod";
import { ZodValidator } from "flowsteps";

const userSchema = z.object({
  userId: z.number(),
  email: z.string().email(),
  age: z.number().min(18),
});

const workflow = new Workflow({
  validator: new ZodValidator(userSchema),
});

Lifecycle hooks

Control workflow execution with fine-grained hooks to add custom behavior at various stages of the workflow.

const workflow = new Workflow<WorkflowContext>({
  hooks: {
    beforeWorkflow: ({ context }) => {
      console.log("Starting workflow with context:", context);
    },
    beforeStep: ({ stepName, context }) => {
      console.log(`Starting step: ${stepName}`);
    },
    afterStep: ({ stepName, context }) => {
      console.log(`Completed step: ${stepName}`);
    },
    afterWorkflow: ({ context }) => {
      console.log("Workflow completed with context:", context);
    },
    onError: ({ error, stepName, context }) => {
      console.error(`Error in step ${stepName}:`, error);
    },
  },
});

API Reference

Workflow

Constructor Options

Option	Type	Description
name	string	Optional workflow identifier
validator	Validator<T>	Input validation handler
metricsCollector	MetricsCollector	Custom metrics collection
hooks	WorkflowHooks<T>	Lifecycle event handlers

Methods

Method	Description
addStep(params: StepConstructorParams<T>)	Add a new step to the workflow
addCondition(config: ConditionConfig<T>)	Add conditional branching
parallel(workflows: Workflow<T>[])	Execute workflows in parallel
execute(params: { context: T })	Run the workflow

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details on how to:

• Submit issues
• Create pull requests
• Follow our coding standards

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.