Confluence Greeter – Hello World with a Personal Touch

Confluence Greeter is a Forge app that welcomes users by name on space pages, using UI Kit and Confluence APIs to personalize content—all built with secure, serverless Forge hosting.

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✨ About the Project

🧠 Inspiration

As a new Atlassian Forge developer, I wanted to build something simple yet meaningful that interacts with real user data. The idea of a personalized welcome message on every Confluence space page felt like a great starting point. It not only taught me how to structure Forge apps but also how to access contextual information and render custom UI using Forge’s tools.

📚 What I Learned

  • How to create and configure Forge apps using the Forge CLI
  • The basics of Forge UI Kit and building interfaces that feel native to Confluence
  • Using requestConfluence to access Confluence REST APIs from the backend
  • Handling frontend–backend interaction via Forge Bridge (invoke)
  • How to declare app permissions and troubleshoot using logs and forge tunnel

🛠️ How I Built It

  1. I used the Forge CLI to create a new app with the confluence-space-page module.
  2. I added a UI Kit component with Text, Heading, and Lozenge.
  3. I used requestConfluence('/wiki/rest/api/user/current') to get the user's name.
  4. I called this backend function from the frontend using invoke.
  5. I deployed and installed the app to my Confluence developer site.

🧗‍♂️ Challenges I Faced

  • Understanding how invoke works to connect front-end and back-end logic
  • Figuring out which permissions were required to access user data
  • Managing the event flow between UI rendering and API response timing
  • Keeping the app lightweight and functional under Forge’s secure runtime

🧰 Built With

  • JavaScript
  • Forge CLI (Atlassian’s development toolkit)
  • Forge UI Kit (Text, Heading, Lozenge)
  • Confluence REST API
  • Forge Bridge (invoke)
  • Serverless architecture via Atlassian Forge

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