Slack EXT: Updatable Message

Create awesome interactions with by updating your slack messages.

Installation

Install it using NPM:

npm install --save slack-ext-updatable-message

Usage

Usage is really easy. You can send anything you can send with the Slack API, we'll do the administration:

const { UpdatableMessage } = require("slack-ext-updatable-message");
 
// provide us a token or an instance of the Slack Api and the channelId
const sender = new UpdatableMessage("token", channelId);
 
// send asynchronously
sender.send('Let me check...');
 
// perform long operations a send feeback
for(var i = 1; i < 10; i++){
    // long operation
    sender.send(`Procssing, we're on ${i}%`);
}
 
await sender.send('Finished!');

Notes

There are some choices we've made:

• Awaiting is optional, but if you want to make sure something really happed, await it.
• If multiple updates come in when sending (without await), the last available message will be send upon completion.