bottender VS bolt-js

We will use Bottender - a framework for writing Telegram bot faster. It also supports Session for us to store past conversation messages and other data, so it’s more convenient to build a chatbot with conversational memory.

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.

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.