Phelia – React for Slack Apps

by maxchehab • 6 years ago

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maxchehab• 6 years ago

Hey hn! I was tired of keeping track of Slack's webhook payloads, designing blocks in JSON, and general code fragmentation. So I tried removing the knowledge barrier of storage, state, webhooks, and message publishing as much as possible. Although Phelia won't make you a better developer, I hope it helps you build your Slack applications faster. All you gotta know is React.

wakeless• 6 years ago

A very cool approach, well done.

RobLach• 6 years ago

Admirable work

cvburgess• 6 years ago

This is so wonderful, as devloping rich interactive Slack apps can be a pain. Thanks for the work!

prezjordan• 6 years ago

Clever, nice work. Always fun to see JSX being used for more than rendering DOM nodes.

richeyryan• 6 years ago

Something else that might interest you is the library Pastel for native Reason projects. It uses JSX for formatting text to output on the terminal.

https://reason-native.com/docs/pastel/quickstart

I'm using at the moment for a project and its quite interesting

eyelidlessness• 6 years ago

This is a cool idea. I just took a glance while on my porch with my phone so limited in tools at hand, but a look at the reconciler suggests to me that this may benefit from some branded types. There are a bunch of type aliases to any, and TS will treat them as compatible by default. “Branding” types is a little sleight of hand that allows some degree of nominal typing that may benefit this usage if the types are meaningful but still truly can be any type

jamestimmins• 6 years ago

This is really exciting! I just finished building a slack app and the JSON-centric UI leaves a lot to be desired.

takklz• 6 years ago

Love this! The slack api is bizarre

flaque• 6 years ago

This is so great, thank you!

slowmotarget• 6 years ago

Fantastic, thank you so much. I'd like to add that while WFH is getting a lot of traction, this is a wonderful time to market for your lib.

bluetidepro• 6 years ago

This is incredible. Just what I needed for a project! Thank you so much!

Phelia – React for Slack Apps

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