slack-block-builder

✨ Add FileInput element and other minor changes

• ✨ The FileInput element is now supported (thanks, @michaelbudgell)
• ✨ Added isExpandable parameter to the Accordion component to pass in a function that dictates whether or not to display/hide the expand button (thanks, @tanguyantoine)
• ✨ Add altText as a prop for Video block (thanks, @soominchun)
• ✨ Add multiline as a prop for TextInput element (thanks, @carlovsk)
• 🐛 Fix typing issues (thanks, @tanguyantoine)
• 🐛 Fix issue with source not being added to the File block

🐛 Fix issue with DateTimePicker import

• DateTimePicker is now available as a top-level import

🐛 Fix issues with newly added elements and type constraints

• DateTimePickerBuilder, NumberInputBuilder, EmailInputBuilder, URLInputBuilder are now assignable to Input.element()
• DateTimePickerBuilder is now assignable to Actions.elements()

✨ Support new block elements introduced by Slack and minor bug fixes

• Add DateTimePicker() to support the all-new date time picker element introduced by Slack.
• Add NumberInput(), URLInput(), EmailInput() to support the new input types introduced by Slack.
• Fix bug where props passed into the constructor were assigned instead of copied (thanks, @nlwillia!).

✨ Add Video() to support video blocks and minor feature and bug fixes

• Add Video() to the library to support the latest block supported by the Slack API.
• Add buildBlock() and buildBlocks() utility functions to build and return Slack API-ready objects for separate blocks.
• Fix bug where using conditionals within the build functions for Accordion and Paginator lead to TypeScript errors.

✨ Add accessibilityLabel() method and introduce OptionCollection and OptionGroupCollection

• Add accessibilityLabel() method to the ButtonBuilder object.
• Add two utility functions, OptionCollection and OptionGroupCollection for using Block Builder to create responses to payloads from select menus with external data sources.

🐛 Fix critical issue with filter and dispatch configs

• In 2.4.0, there was a critical bug introduced that created issues with the filter and dispatch configs for Block Kit Elements

✨ Add focusOnLoad() methods to elements and introduce inline conditional helper functions

• Add focusOnLoad() method to supported elements to support the focus_on_load feature of Block Kit.
• Add setIfTruthy(), omitIfTruthy(), setIfFalsy(), omitIfFalsy() functions to make it easy to use inline conditionals. More information can be found in the README and on the doc site.
• A lot of reworking for the internal file structure.

🐛 Fix issue with exclude_bot_users and exclude_external_shared_channels

• When calling the excludeBotUsers and excludeExternalSharedChannels, the resulting DTO had both a filter argument as well as exclude_bot_users and exclude_external_shared_channels, resulting in an invalid payload. This has been resolved.

✨ Add buttonId to object passed to actionId function for Paginator and EasyPaginator

• Add a buttonId parameter to ensure that the resulting action_id for each button in the paginator navigation is always unique.

✨ Add common UI components to the library

• Add the Paginator and EasyPaginator components for paginated content.
• Add the Accordion component for expandable content.

Note that there's more information available in the README, on the docs site, and in the demo app repository.

🐛 Fix Issue with type compatibility with Slack Node SDK's

• Fix the return type for Surface.buildToObject() for better TypeScript compatibility with Slack's own WebClient from their Node SDK (thanks, @M1kep!).

🐛 Fix Issue with printPreviewUrl() method

• Fix getPreviewUrl() for HomeTab, Modal, WorkflowStep (thanks, @zcei!).

✨ New Methods and TS Bug Fix

• Add getPreviewUrl() method to surfaces (thanks, @zaini!).
• Add emoji() method to Md (thanks @trevor-gullstad!).
• Fix TypeScript not allowing undefined as an argument when strict: true (thanks @tsnieman!).

✨ Block Builder Version 2 is now here!

• Better TypeScript experience.
• Configuration methods now accept arguments.
• New BlockCollection and AttachmentCollection features.
• New Md object with Slack markdown helpers.
• All objects now importable through their 'categories' as well as top-level.
• Improved JSDoc annotations.

To read more about this release and possible breaking changes, see the announcement.

✨ Block Builder now supports workflow step modals with the WorkflowStep object

• Add WorkflowStep object.
• Fix types for Bits.ConfirmationDialog.

✨ Add ignoreMarkdown() Method to Message

• Add ignoreMarkdown to Message object.
• Fix types for Context.elements() args.
• Fix tests for onCharacterEntered and onEnterPressed.

✨ Add fallback() Method to Bits.Attachment

• Add fallback to Attachment object.

⚡ Refactor and Update TypeScript Definitions

• Refactor Message and Surface objects, so that the printPreviewUrl method is on all surfaces.
• Updated types.d.ts to reflect this change.

⚡ Update TypeScript Definitions

• Update TypeScript definitions to include TimePicker and other methods added in version 1.7.0.