bolt-js VS date-fns

Try a Slack bot. They (Slack) have a wrapper project and example using node/express. I think this is it. And MongoDB has their new(ish?) Atlas app which acts as a GUI/terminal for a freely-host database.

bolt

Yeah I’m planning to work on a PoC using Bolt: https://github.com/slackapi/bolt-js

I’m confident I can get something working reasonably quickly. I was hoping to get some Slack boilerplate out of the way, but I’m sure it’s not too obnoxious.

Also since posting I did find a generic chat bot framework that works with Slack and a few other chat systems: https://github.com/Yoctol/bottender

Even so I may give in and write it all from scratch to avoid excess dependencies.

Let's install the project dependencies. Our main dependency is Bolt, the official Slack framework for building Slack apps with JavaScript.

It helps that the tool we’re building on is welcoming developers to their platform with open arms. As Slack’s rivalry with Microsoft Teams heats up, the company is increasingly touting their app marketplace as a unique selling point. So much so, they’ve even set up their own investment fund aimed at Slack apps and released their own Javascript framework to make building native apps easier.

// Prevent the date to lose the milliseconds when passed to new Date() in IE10 return new (argument.constructor as GenericDateConstructor)( +argument, ); // Source: https://github.com/date-fns/date-fns/blob/5c1adb5369805ff552737bf8017dbe07f559b0c6/src/toDate/index.ts#L46

For the longest time working with dates in JavaScript was a huge pain. That’s why libraries such as moment.js or date-fns are so popular. A lot of times I’d reach for these libraries when working with relative time formatting, but since late last year we’ve had pretty great browser support for the RelativeTimeFormat() method. In my mind, relative dates are just more visually appealing, especially for working with dates internationally. Dates like "5 days ago" or "in 2 months" are far more intuitive for users than 12/12/2023, or 03/11/2027. Folks in the US will see that as March 11, 2027, whereas the rest of the world will see that as November 03, 2027. What a nightmare.

8. Date-fns - Simplifying Time Manipulation ⏳

I work with date-fns and date-fns-tz

In past i used Moment, but I read that we should avoid to use it for future projects. I read someone suggested to use Datejs, but it doesn't seems to be updated, last time was 8 years ago. Currently I'm thinking to use Luxon but I someone suggest Date-fns also.

date-fns : Date handling

Thanks! I used date-fns for the calendar

I've used this before and I like it more

The default date constructor does a really great job at parsing in most cases and things like addition/subtraction along with many other common operations are usually just simple math. If you really want to abstract that use date-fns where most date operations are tree shakable to be left with just a few lines of code.