Summary

This chapter included a lot of technical terms, but also a lot of great tools you now have the ability to test out at your leisure in your very own workspace outside of your Slack workspace. In this chapter, we re-discovered Slack APIs with a more detailed explanation of what it is and how to use it. We learned specifically what the Webhook API is and how to create basic and advanced versions with text as well as other elements. We discovered Block Kit and how to customize and create individual and stacked blocks with a variety of types and fields. And we compiled that knowledge into the test station of sandbox by understanding how to set up and invite users to a mock workspace to test out these advanced features.

In the next chapter, we'll take a step further into the technical realm of Slack. Chapter 6, Your Workplace Slackbot, taught us the importance of Slackbot and the basics of how to build your very own bot. Now, we're going to take a deeper look into what...