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Phelia – React for Slack Apps

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Post by maxchehab » Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 3:37 PM UTC

Phelia – React for Slack Apps
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Re: Phelia – React for Slack Apps

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Post by maxchehab » Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 3:39 PM UTC

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.

Re: Phelia – React for Slack Apps

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Post by cvburgess » Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 1:09 AM UTC

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

Re: Phelia – React for Slack Apps

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Post by wakeless » Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 1:10 AM UTC

maxchehab wrote: post #2

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.

A very cool approach, well done.

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Post by prezjordan » Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 1:19 AM UTC

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

Re: Phelia – React for Slack Apps

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Post by eyelidlessness » Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 1:30 AM UTC

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

Re: Phelia – React for Slack Apps

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Post by jamestimmins » Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 1:39 AM UTC

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

Re: Phelia – React for Slack Apps

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Post by takklz » Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 1:44 AM UTC

Love this! The slack api is bizarre

Re: Phelia – React for Slack Apps

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Post by flaque » Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 1:48 AM UTC

This is so great, thank you!

Re: Phelia – React for Slack Apps

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Post by RobLach » Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 5:49 AM UTC

maxchehab wrote: post #2

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.

Admirable work