Development Automation from Atomist 🚀

Ryan Day
The Composition
Published in
2 min readNov 20, 2017

A few days ago, we announced some big updates, including the latest release of Atomist with better extensibility, an improved developer experience, and a more powerful Slack integration.

Atomist Web Interface

During the Alpha, the only way to use Atomist was through Slack. As of today, you can now also use the web interface. Just sign up with your GitHub ID to get started.

Drive Development from Slack

We’ve updated Atomist to give you more visibility and control from Slack: more merge options, delete branch after merge, and assign reviewers for a pull request, for example. We heard that a reminder feature would be useful, so we now send you a direct message in Slack when you are assigned an issue or added as a reviewer on a pull-request.

Develop Automations

Extend the Atomist out-of-the-box automations or write your own automation commands and event handlers. With the Automation Client open source project, you can develop, test and run automations in the environment of your choice. Iterate quickly with local development, then deploy to your favorite cloud or data center.

GraphQL API

Event-driven automation is powerful. Atomist gets all of the events from your dev flow and makes them available for you to explore, notify on, and trigger actions. The new GraphQL API and GraphiQL browser make it easy to discover, select, and subscribe to the events that you want to trigger your automations. Here’s an example. Just head over to the Quick Start to get going.

Add the Atomist bot to your Slack team, or start developing automations today.

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