Articles - Page 18 of 23 - Engineering at Slack

January 31, 2018

28 min read

@Machisté N. Quintana

Interop’s Labyrinth: Sharing Code Between Web & Electron Apps

While it’s no secret that the cross-platform Slack Desktop app is built on Electron, it might be slightly less…

January 25, 2018

7 min read

@Brenda Jin

You know how to design a good API, but how do you evolve that API when it’s time to make changes? We’ve faced…

January 17, 2018

14 min read

@Rowan Oulton

webpack is a brilliant tool for bundling frontend assets. When things start to slow down, though, its…

January 10, 2018

10 min read

@Kevin Lai@Valera Zakharov

In Part 1 we introduced the targeted and hermetic UI test approach that helped Slack Android engineers write…

January 4, 2018

12 min read

@Valera Zakharov

Developer-driven automated testing is vital to the ongoing health and quality of a codebase. It does, however,…

December 6, 2017

14 min read

@Slack Engineering

Slack uses a job queue system for business logic that is too time-consuming to run in the context of a web…

October 30, 2017

13 min read

@Charlie Hess

Recently Slack on the desktop has been going through an awkward adolescence. Instead of flailing limbs and pitch…

October 11, 2017

9 min read

@Mina Markham

In August, we released a major redesign of slack.com, and we want to give you a peek behind-the-scenes.…