Hello Forge

Inspiration

Building apps for Jira and Confluence traditionally required setting up infrastructure, managing auth flows, and handling security concerns—all of which created friction for first-time developers. Atlassian Forge eliminates those barriers. We wanted to test how easily a complete beginner could build a real, working app using Forge. Thus, Hello Forge was born—a minimal, functional Jira app designed to say “Hello” in the simplest yet most impactful way: by interacting directly within the Atlassian ecosystem.

How we built it

We built Hello Forge using:

Atlassian Forge Framework (no servers or external DBs)

Custom UI with React for the frontend

Forge APIs to access context like issue, project, and user

Forge Tunnel and forge deploy to iterate quickly

Used manifest.yml to define app modules and permissions

Challenges we ran into

Understanding Forge’s permission model initially took time

Learning the exact structure of context data required trial and error

Custom UI deployment can sometimes be slow or require refreshes

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Successfully deployed our first Forge app

What we learned

How to use Atlassian UI modules and Custom UI together

Built With

• apis
• atlassian
• cli
• cloud
• context
• javascript
• jira
• kit
• manifest
• node.js
• platform
• react