Phelia – React for Slack Apps (opens in new tab)

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.

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

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

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

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

Love this! The slack api is bizarre

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.

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

This is so great, thank you!