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How to create a fully interactive NodeJS Slack app with a slash command, buttons and more
This is the second part of Making An Interactive Slack App, in the first part we created a Slack and Node app, listened to and responded to events. In this article, we’re going to learn how to respond to Slack interactions, ie any action a user takes on a fancy element like buttons, select menus, and more.
Responding To Interactions
Now that we can send back the first question, let’s read the response and send a second question. Slack also has a module for Node, install it by typing npm install @slack/interactive-messages --save in your terminal. Create a new file called interactions.js …
How to create a fully interactive NodeJS Slack app with a slash command, buttons and more
If you want to create a Slack bot that only posts simple text content, you can easily find tutorials online. But when what you want is a bot that interacts with user through select menus or buttons, it then becomes harder to find content and to actually understand why a Slack bot user is not going to work.
Let me start with a key piece of information that took me many hours of research and trial & error to understand. Custom bot users are different than Slack apps. The former have more limited capabilities. They can listen to events, post…
Slack! What are you? Forget text, email, iMessage. GoogleGroups, you’re all passé. When I heard of ‘Slack’ I was more than a little skeptical…but then I learned to love it! In late February, I headed full-time into a UX Design Immersive Class at General Assembly in my late 40s and my instructors said Slack was our communication tool. Not by email or by text, but by slacking each other. We also used Trello and UX design tech tools such as Sketch and Balsamiq. But what is ‘Slack?” and why does the word make me smile? Is “Just Slack Me!” the…
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