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Slack Canvas

Slack Canvas is an in-Slack collaborative-canvas surface (launched 2023) providing editable shared documents alongside the messaging substrate. At the build-pipeline level, Canvas shares the Python- backend-plus-TypeScript-frontend stack with Quip, and the two surfaces are built by the same artifact pipeline.

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  • sources/2025-11-06-slack-build-better-software-to-build-software-better — Canvas's build pipeline is the subject (alongside Quip's) of Slack's 60 min → 10 min build-time case study. The frontend bundle format "unique across Slack Canvas and Quip's desktop and web applications" is assembled by the Python+TypeScript orchestration pipeline the Slack Engineering team refactored onto Bazel.
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