You're reading from Supercharge your Slack Productivity Discover hacks and tips for managing and automating your workflow with Slack and Slack bots

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800569621

Length 300 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Slack

Concepts

Real Time Communication

Author (1):

Moshe Markovich

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Slack Overview

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Slack FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Slack Workspace

4. Chapter 3: Slack Features, Tips, and Tricks

5. Chapter 4: Onboarding Your Team to Slack

6. Chapter 5: Using Slack Externally with Live Chats, Guests, and Partners

7. Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots

8. Chapter 6: Your Workspace Slackbot

9. Chapter 7: Integrating Your Favorite Tools

10. Chapter 8: Automate Your Workflow with Zapier

11. Chapter 9: Slack API, Webhooks, Block Kit, and Sandboxes

12. Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

13. Chapter 10: Building Your Own Bot

14. Chapter 11: Buying, Building, and Outsourcing Your Bot

15. Chapter 12: Distributing Your App in the Slack App Directory

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using external and paid frameworks

If building your bot yourself is still a priority for you and your team, it may make more sense to purchase a framework rather than the actual bot or app itself. We learned in Chapter 10, Building Your Own Bot, that there are existing frameworks within Slack, such as Block Kit and Bolt, but we have yet to discuss using them as a paid or external option.

In this section, we'll focus on different types of frameworks outside of Slack, both free and paid, such as Botkit, Microsoft Bot Framework, and Amazon Lex.

Botkit

When it comes to free, for me, Botkit is the go-to framework option. This open source developing tool aids in building bots for Slack such as chatbots as well as apps and custom integrations. Open source essentially means a type of software where the code is released under a license in which the owner has the right to use, change, and distribute to others. Botkit provides a built-in source for hundreds of already-existing...