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As for slack-edge and slack-cloudflare-workers, they are completely my personal hobby projects. So, I'm not sure how much time I can devote to them, but I hope to continue improving them at my own pace. Currently, they only support KV, so I want to add support for other data stores as well. Please feel free to give me any questions or feedback. Also, if you create something interesting using these, I'd love to hear about it!
As for slack-edge and slack-cloudflare-workers, they are completely my personal hobby projects. So, I'm not sure how much time I can devote to them, but I hope to continue improving them at my own pace. Currently, they only support KV, so I want to add support for other data stores as well. Please feel free to give me any questions or feedback. Also, if you create something interesting using these, I'd love to hear about it!
This also becomes a constraint when you want to run it as part of a web application using modern frameworks like Next.js or Nest.js. Since I often get questions about this, I explored possible ways on the weekends and eventually created a library to circumvent the constraints of the Receiver. At the moment, there are no plans to transfer this Bolt HTTP Runner into the 1st party SDKs. However, I intend to continue maintaining it as much as I can as an individual, so if you really want to try running it on Next.js or something similar, please use or fork this library.
I digressed a bit. As you can see, it's surprisingly difficult (or was) to properly create a Slack app on Cloudflare Workers. For example, this app that implements integration with ChatGPT is doing all the things I mentioned above on its own.
Recently, as a weekend hobby project, I created a Slack app development framework for Cloudflare Workers and Vercel Edge Functions.
This also becomes a constraint when you want to run it as part of a web application using modern frameworks like Next.js or Nest.js. Since I often get questions about this, I explored possible ways on the weekends and eventually created a library to circumvent the constraints of the Receiver. At the moment, there are no plans to transfer this Bolt HTTP Runner into the 1st party SDKs. However, I intend to continue maintaining it as much as I can as an individual, so if you really want to try running it on Next.js or something similar, please use or fork this library.
This also becomes a constraint when you want to run it as part of a web application using modern frameworks like Next.js or Nest.js. Since I often get questions about this, I explored possible ways on the weekends and eventually created a library to circumvent the constraints of the Receiver. At the moment, there are no plans to transfer this Bolt HTTP Runner into the 1st party SDKs. However, I intend to continue maintaining it as much as I can as an individual, so if you really want to try running it on Next.js or something similar, please use or fork this library.
While it has become easier to automate within Slack, there are things that cannot be done with existing app development. For example, as of 2023, you cannot add slash commands to the entire workspace or set a home tab for users. Also, note that this next-generation platform feature is only available in paid Slack workspaces, and usage charges apply for workflow executions that exceed the free tier. For more details, please read the series of articles I wrote a few months ago: https://dev.to/seratch/series/21161
By the way, since the beginning of this year (2023), a new app development mechanism for extending the Workflow Builder, called the next-generation automation platform, has been added to the Slack platform.