Introduction to Bolt
Explore and set up Slack's Bolt framework.
Overview
The Bolt framework from Slack, which allows us to focus less on the setup and more on the functionality of our application. The Bolt framework offers the following advantages:
- It is a built-in web server.
- It helps manage authentication by handling
.OAuth Open Authorization allows external entities to share your information without revealing your password. - It has a clean and simple interface.
- It offers built-in token validation and rate-limiting logic
The framework allows for a cleaner coding experience to build and maintain an application with less effort. Under the hood, the framework utilizes the same API that we’ve been studying so far, so all of the functionality we’ve looked at is implemented using the framework.
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