Temporal Slack Bot Tutorial - Choose Your Own Adventure!

Joshua K Goldberg built a complete demo using some advanced patterns in the Temporal TypeScript SDK: https://github.com/JoshuaKGoldberg/te...

This is a full code walkthrough and explanation of how you can build your own Slack or Discord adventure bot, complete with explanations of Temporal design patterns that you can use in your own applications!

Note: we use a "busy" poll inside the Workflow here for simplicity, which is fine for a daily poll. However, more frequent polls should poll using server side retries or a long running activity: https://community.temporal.io/t/what-...

Timestamps:

00:00 Project Intro and Demo
03:30 Temporal Worker - Activity Dependency Injection
07:00 Temporal Sinks for Logging
08:00 Temporal Client
10:50 RunGame Workflow and Game Logic
13:45 Async Race Design Pattern: Timers vs Humans
15:00 Design Pattern: Polling
18:05 Signals
20:00 HTTP Server for Signal
23:00 ContinueAsNew