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Marco Davalos
Marco Davalos

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Merge Faster to Ship Faster ⚡

Context

Software Engineering teams often share manually their Pull Requests to a Slack channel seeking a code review. This would not only speed up the review process but also boost productivity, increase team collaboration work visibility.

A year ago I got tired of copy pasting the PR info into Slack, and not being able to see its status with a quick look. prbot was born as a Hackathon to solve this issue. It ended up being used and loved by most of engineers at work.

I really enjoyed working on it so I decided to improve it and make it a product to keep coding cool and useful features around it.

Product

https://prbot.app

Even though the initial idea was simple, it kept evolving to what it is now:

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Today's prbot mission is to enhance and speed up code review process, by automating Pull Request sharing, keep them in sync, and much more.

Features

  • Automatic Slack message
  • Synced Pull Request Status
  • Synced Reviews Status
  • Multiple Channel Support
  • Customizable Message Format
  • Advanced Settings

Configuration

Your config is a yaml file that you can put anywhere.

slack:
  defaultChannelID: "00000000000"

  repositories:
    backend:
      channelID: "00000000000"
    front-end:
      channelID: "00000000000"

  messageFormat:
    showSizeEmoji: true
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Next Steps

I'm exited about the upcoming features like reminders, codeowners suppot, Microsoft Teams support, etc. However, they won't matter if you won't use it so I would love to know the features you would like to see in the prbot next releases.

How's your code review workflow? Tell me about it!

Happy coding!

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