# Engineering nits: Building a Storybook for Slack Block Kit

DevFeed: [Engineering nits: Building a Storybook for Slack Block Kit](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/engineering-nits-building-a-storybook-for-slack-block-kit-11995.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/slack-previews>)

Author: Lawrence Jones

Published: 2023-11-28T11:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Slack](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/slack.md>), [Storybook](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/storybook.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>)

Tags: [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [components](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/components.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [design-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design-systems.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.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>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [slack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

incident.io describes building Slack Previews, a Storybook-like browser for Slack Block Kit. The tool provides an indexed, shareable collection of Slack modals and messages that stays synchronized with code and supports viewing their variations.

## Source excerpt

We care a lot about the pace of shipping at incident.io, and we also build lots of UIs inside Slack. Slack previews lets us collaborate on designing these experiences much more quickly.