bolt-python VS node-slack-sdk

This post will follow and extend the example from slackapi/bolt-python and manage infrasture as code it using AWS CDK typescript.

I started building this framework a couple of years ago because I found no easy existing solution to build Slack bots that can be composed from/organized into plugins. Existing libraries like Bolt make it pretty easy to develop Slack bots, but hard to organize and scale the code base of your bot. I was also missing some crucial features such as scheduling actions for your bot. So I wrote my own framework!

Looks like there's an official guide in the works: https://github.com/slackapi/bolt-python/pull/441

Made with diff-cam-engine (https://github.com/lonekorean/diff-cam-engine) and the Slack Node.js SDK (https://slack.dev/node-slack-sdk/)

Slack developer documentation is a hot mess. For any given question you have about how to use Slack's developer APIs, there are probably three or seven official pages claiming to answer your question, they all cross-reference each other, and none of them really gets to the heart of your problem (I challenge you to look up how to build a Slack Interaction and come away with reasonable answer). There is no repository of curated infrastructure templates to help you set up on AWS, Azure, or wherever (and hence this article came to be). Most tellingly of all, Slack's official documentation is bifurcated from its GitHub presence, which makes it that much harder to connect the dots when explanations do not add up (or if you want to open an issue to rectify the documentation).