Slack Bot

Ship #1

I created a very basic Slack Bot as my first project on Stardance. I faced several errors during coding, as this is my first project thats about to be shipped, but everything worked out. I'm proud that I understood almost everything while following the guide, and I only realized later that I underestimated myself. The bot is a Slack slash bot that runs 24/7 on Hack Club Nest. To test it, click the linked Demo URL to add the bot to your own Slack workspace, then try all 4 commands. The source code is available on GitHub, which is also linked along with Demo URL, GitHub URL and README URL.

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@Roombla on Slack Bot · 4 days ago

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Slack bot devlog #1

I started coding in Stardance and picked a Slack bot as my first project. It runs on JavaScript and is hosted on a Nest server so it stays online 24/7. I managed to build the 4 standard commands: /miki-ping, /miki-help, /miki-joke, and /miki-catfact. Fetching the jokes and cat facts from APIs was pretty confusing at first, and I spent way too much time debugging why the server kept crashing because of silly typos.

Another huge mistake I made during my first time coding a Stardance project, is that I forgot to install the time tracker extension in VSC, so I had to rewrite the code completely to get a similar amount of ‘minutes coded’ to my original attempt, but in the end, it finally works!