Chapter 9: Slack API, Webhooks, Block Kit, and Sandboxes

We've discussed a lot of complex concepts on the road to understanding the best and most efficient ways to use Slack. In Chapter 6, Your Workplace Slackbot, we learned what Slackbot is, how to bring outside applications into Slack, and even how to integrate features of other apps directly into our channels, all different stepping stones toward your total understanding of how to best understand and use Slack for you and your team.

Chapter 8, Automate Your Workflow with Zapier, introduced us to Zapier and the concept of automating workflows by integrating external applications into your workspace through Zaps. Now, we're going to take a look at what a Slack API is and how to take advantage of its features and tools such as Webhooks, Block Kit, and sandboxes to automate these tasks within the Slack app itself.

This chapter will cover these main topics:

• What a Slack API is and how to use it
• Learn what...