Getting started with our beta platform

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Post by user234220 » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:20 PM UTC

Getting started with our beta platform
api.slack.com

Re: Getting started with our beta platform

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Post by nikivi » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:31 PM UTC

I wonder why using CLI requires you downloading Deno. Can't Deno compile to static binary?

https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/02/deno-compiles-native-bina...

Re: Getting started with our beta platform

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Post by petepete » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:35 PM UTC

With one hand they give us nice new tools, with the other they're pulling Fedora support.

I'm not very enthusiastic about writing any more integrations or apps.

Re: Getting started with our beta platform

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Post by thinkmassive » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:38 PM UTC

nikivi wrote: post #2

I wonder why using CLI requires you downloading Deno. Can't Deno compile to static binary? https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/02/deno-compiles-native-bina...

This doesn’t seem like a CLI/TUI for chatting on slack, but more like a CLI tool for building commands to be used within Slack, like /mycommand, which they call “slack apps”

Re: Getting started with our beta platform

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Post by 999900000999 » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:46 PM UTC

petepete wrote: post #3

With one hand they give us nice new tools, with the other they're pulling Fedora support. I'm not very enthusiastic about writing any more integrations or apps.

Fedora supports Chrome.

Slack on Chrome supports notifications, thus slack supports Fedora.

Re: Getting started with our beta platform

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Post by colinmcd » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:49 PM UTC

This is the strongest validation signal I've seen for Deno in some time. I had the impression it was withering on the vine, but hopefully this puts some wind in its sails.

Re: Getting started with our beta platform

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Post by sneak » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:54 PM UTC

petepete wrote: post #3

With one hand they give us nice new tools, with the other they're pulling Fedora support. I'm not very enthusiastic about writing any more integrations or apps.

Patch out the phone-home spyware and run Mattermost on a machine you control.

Re: Getting started with our beta platform

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Post by colinramsay » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:56 PM UTC

I'm currently working on a small Slack app and the experience has been fairly horrendous. The documentation is all over the place. I'm not sure if adding yet another chunk of stuff to it is such a good idea - where does this leave Bolt?

https://slack.dev/bolt-js/

Re: Getting started with our beta platform

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Post by SV_BubbleTime » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:56 PM UTC

thinkmassive wrote: post #4

nikivi wrote: post #2

I wonder why using CLI requires you downloading Deno. Can't Deno compile to static binary? https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/02/deno-compiles-native-bina...

This doesn’t seem like a CLI/TUI for chatting on slack, but more like a CLI tool for building commands to be used within Slack, like /mycommand, which they call “slack apps”

Thanks. I haven’t been following why there is should be a CLI in slack, or what they’re doing here. And in classic “tech things for tech people” manner, they don’t seem to explain their intent in the post. How, but not why.

Ok. So they want me to be able to write commands that go between slack and my app, and I assume get results back in to slack.

Do I want this?

I don’t have to open a terminal window if I’m already in slack, and I assume the real thing here is I can get complex actions right? IDK, maybe it’s another thing I just don’t get.

Re: Getting started with our beta platform

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Post by Lightbody » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 4:06 PM UTC

We (reclaim.ai) have a fairly advanced Slack integration. Custom actions, modals, Slack status, interactive messages, custom bot home screen, etc.

I truly can’t tell what this is. I also had never heard of Deno before so that context didn’t help.

At first glance it seemed to be a next gen way to build interactive UIs in the Slack app, compared to the callback nature we built our app with.

But digging a bit deeper, it seems to be more narrowly focused on their “workflows” feature, which is one of the few things in their platform we haven’t used.

I’d love to learn more, but also if anyone from Slack is reading: your platform is pretty complex and announcements like this don’t help folks like me.