November 5, 2025
Atlassians Forge at 6 years
Hosted by Atlassian
Perfect for custom development apps: They keep running
UIKit is actually a nice piece of engineering
Bad
Very E2E-y feeling:
I declare functions
That I’ve to wire up
That then have resolvers
That I then have to call? WHAT?
Performance is no-where where I want it.
Serverless handicap. Rountrip-Galore.
Ugly
Missing the 'web-platform' escape hatch
Cannot change pieces:
HTML/JS in iframe in Browser Communicating via → Https → Server
But with Forge I get:
Forge → React → HTML/JS in Browser Communication via → Bridge → GraphQL → my-function