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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By : Moshe Markovich
Book Image

Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By: Moshe Markovich

Overview of this book

Slack is an online communication tool that allows workplace teams to collaborate efficiently, effectively, and securely. It’s the leading channel-based messaging platform used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems, and drive their businesses forward. As a developer, you can use Slack to create tools such as bots that handle and maintain routine and time-consuming tasks. If you’re looking to set up a Slack workplace or build a Slack bot or app, this is the book for you. In this book, you’ll explore scenarios that show you how to set up a Slack workplace, build a Slack bot, or integrate your favorite tools. You’ll also learn how Slack can help you create a more collaborative, efficient, and coordinated work environment from any location. As you advance through the chapters, you'll find out how to manage your tasks and boost your business productivity by automating the trivial tasks. You'll also cover more advanced features such as using a Slack bot to complete tasks, including automating message responses and accessing personal reminders. By the end of this Slack book, you'll have learned how to use Slack effectively to communicate with your team and build bots and have gained a solid understanding of how the platform can help you to progress in your industry.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Slack Overview
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Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots
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Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

How to use Block Kit

Block Kit is a UI framework for Slack. A UI framework is the set of interfaces that define elements and the behavior of a user; essentially, the supporting structure of the visual elements of an application. For Slack, this includes things such as buttons and icons that allow your members to interact with a product. Blocks allow you to customize the order and appearance of this information by guiding users through designed blocks: reusable components that can be utilized almost anywhere in Slack.

Blocks are visual components that can be stacked or rearranged any way you like across your Slack workspace to create app layouts. Block Kit is the compilation of these tools by composing layouts for modals, messages, or tabs to design specially structured JSON to express features of an application. JSON uses understandable text to store and transmit data. We know that's a large influx of technical terms. Let's break down the many facets of Block Kit, starting...