Jira Cloud App Development with Atlassian Forge

The easiest way to write your own Jira Cloud apps
Learn how to write your own Jira Cloud apps with Atlassian Forge. This is by far the easiest way to write your own Jira apps.

If you are new to Jira app development, then start with Forge.

Many app vendors still use Atlassian Connect as their main platform. Forge may not be as powerful yet but is far easier than Connect, and there is no need to worry about setting up any infrastructure. Atlassian handle it all for you.

If you are a Jira administrator or software developer who has always dreamed about making your own extensions, then this course is right for you. It will get you on the road to making your own add-ons and listing them on the Atlassian Marketplace, where you can choose to provide your add-on for free or even monetise your work.

You never know, this could be the start of your very own Atlassian App business!

If you are an Atlassian Consultant, then you will learn how powerful Forge apps can be and how easy it is to write them.

After getting you set up with your development environment, this course will teach you how to write your own apps by covering all the basic concepts first and then taking you through the development of two aps: a UI Kit app and a Custom UI app with Atlassian Forge. And don't worry, you will also learn what UI Kit and Custom UI are.

This course covers the following areas:-

Introduction to Jira apps

Development environment setup

Building a simple example app and how it all works

The development cycle

User interface formatting with UK Kit, Custom UI

Using JavaScript and REST APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to extract information from Jira and make changes in Jira

Extension points, modules and webhooks

Building two apps from scratch

Publishing your app on the Marketplace