Chapter 1. Getting Started with Slack
This book will enable a beginner to create their own Slack bot either for amusement or professional purposes.
The ultimate goal of this book is for you to think of Slack as a development platform with great potential, rather than simply a chat client. As Slack continues its meteoric rise in popularity in the developer community, the possibilities and opportunities contained in Slack apps will prove to be a valuable tool in any developer's toolbox.
In this chapter, we introduce you to Slack and its possibilities. We will cover:
- An introduction to Slack
- Slack as a platform
- The end goal
