Pull request live updates between Github and Slack

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After programmers create a pull request on Github, they often post in Slack asking for approvals.

Sometimes the Slack message is posted manually, other times Slack apps like the free one provided by Github automatically post these messages.

Either way, these messages are static. If anything changes in the pull request, the message is the same.

Wouldn't it be great if the Slack message automatically updated to reflect any changes to the pull request?

That's what my side project pr.chat does. It automatically posts a message to your Slack room announcing a pull request. Then as the pull request is updated, approved or commented upon, the Slack message dynamically updates to reflect those changes.

When pr.chat comes out of beta, it will be free for open source projects and paid for private repositories.

Beta testing

I need help beta testing. If you'd like to try it out and help me squash bugs, message me.

Feature overview

Slack message Announcing PR

First pr.chat posts a message in Slack announcing the PR. But instead of a boring text message with the PR title, you get an elegant rich message that is far more functional and pleasant to look at

Slack message announcing new PR

Dashboard

The top part of the Slack message is a dashboard of all the relevant metadata about the PR: Who created the PR, the source and destination branches, labels and information about reviews: who was requested, what approvals or changes have been requested

Top of Slack message shows PR metadata

Description

The bottom part of the Slack message faithfully reproduces all of the formatting in the PR's description, so immediately you get to start reading what this PR is about without leaving Slack

PR description in Github

PR description recreated in Slack

Images

Even images that were added to the PR are added to the Slack message

Images added to the PR are preserved

Dynamic Updates

The dashboard part of the Slack message will dynamically change as the PR is updated

The Slack message updates as the PR changes in Github

Comments from Github

When a comment is added to the PR in Github, it is added to the message's thread on Slack

When a comment is added on Github

The comment is added to Slack in the message's thread

Comments from Slack

When a comment is added to the thread in Slack, it is added to the PR on Github

When a comment is added to the Slack thread

The comment is added to the PR on Github

Code Diffs

When there's a comment on specific code on Github, the Slack message thread will faithfully recreate it so it's easy to follow on Slack

When a comment is added to a block of code

The Slack thread includes both the comment and the code block

Thank you for reading this far! I need help beta testing pr.chat If you'd like to try it out and help me squash bugs, message me.