It’s always nice to have a friend who can help you out once in a while. It’s even nicer to have a friend who can help you out 24 hours a day, who never gets tired or bored or sick, who is focused 100% on helping you do what you need to do. Slackbots can be such friends for you. Setting up a slackbot is easy, and we will show you how to build your own helpful slackbot in 7 simple steps: Get your Slack API Key Add a New “Bot User” Setup Your Project Import Dependencies Handle...
(This article was co-written with Keith Keough) Slack is our communication tool of choice at Code Hangar. On top of the obvious benefits of simple multi-team support, and excellent UI experiences across web and desktop / mobile native apps, it has an awesome library of integrations. In this post we will explore Slack's Slash Commands and Incoming Webhooks. In one our upcoming projects, we were ready to invite a few initial users to help us test the platform, but wanted to restrict certain access to only those people we had directly invited. This was achieved by a simple activated: true|false...