# App Lifecycle

URL: /milo-cli/docs/about/concepts/app-lifecycle/
Section: concepts
Description: How a Milo terminal app starts, dispatches actions, renders, and exits.

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A Milo app starts a store, reads terminal input, dispatches actions, renders a
Kida template, and restores the terminal on exit.

```mermaid
flowchart LR
    Start[Start App] --> Store[Create Store]
    Store --> Input[Read Input]
    Input --> Dispatch[Dispatch Action]
    Dispatch --> Reducer[Reducer]
    Reducer --> Render[Render Template]
    Render --> Input
    Reducer --> Effects[Schedule Sagas or Cmd]
    Effects --> Dispatch
    Dispatch --> Exit[Quit and Cleanup]
```

Reducers decide state. Effects do work. The runtime owns terminal setup and
cleanup.