# Building Workflows, Part 1 -- Core concepts and the Workflow Builder

DevFeed: [Building Workflows, Part 1 -- Core concepts and the Workflow Builder](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-workflows-part-1-core-concepts-and-the-workflow-builder-11712.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/building-workflows-part-1>)

Author: Lawrence Jones

Published: 2022-09-14T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [No-code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/no-code.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>)

Tags: [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [concepts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/concepts.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [deep-dive](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deep-dive.md>), [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-channel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-channel.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [no-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/no-code.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>), [workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflow.md>)

## AI overview

Part one explains how incident.io built its workflow engine and Workflow Builder. It introduces core workflow concepts, describes the code structure, and examines how a configuration UI exposes those concepts through APIs to power the frontend.

## Source excerpt

Part one of a deep-dive into building our workflow engine, covering core workflow concepts and how they are used to power the Workflow Builder.