My first slack bot!
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@ahmdesmaill
- 2 Devlogs
- 2 Total hours
This bot isn't slacking off, it replies to messages 24/7!
Ship #1
Pending review
@ahmdesmaill
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My first slack bot!
I created a slack bot called botty. The most challenging part was the error handling of API requests as I'm kind of new to it, and hunting small hidden bugs. I'm proud that I completed the project successfully and started my first ever project on hack club.
@ahmdesmaill
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My first slack bot!
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Final devlog + demo ✨
Finished working on botty!
How it works:
- you run ‘/botty-convert {amount} {base} to {target}’
- you can enter a decimal amount
- currency codes aren’t case-sensitive
- works with A LOT of different currencies
Technical parts:
- I used a regex to separate between values more dynamically
- I Learnt the difference between the built-in fetch & axios.get()
The hardest part was the error handling & creating intuitive error messages that depend on the error type.
@ahmdesmaill
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My first slack bot!
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Just finished my first working version of the slack bot mission!
What did I learn:
- How to create a bot and generate the API keys on slack
- How it’s important to wrap your API calls in a try & catch block or otherwise your app will stop working as soon as any error happens
- How much hack club is awesome and very guided! I thought that things will be hard but it turned out pretty easy, actually!
What I’m aiming to:
- I’ll probably turn it to be a currency convertor (for example, running ‘1 usd to euros’ should return 0.87 euros) because this sounds interesting.
