Replace slack-utils with the slack package

[captn3m0]

The slack-utils package was written when there weren't many good clients for Slack available. However:

• Jinora is the only app using it
• It hasn't been maintained in quite some time
• There are known security issues with the dependencies it is using

I've been trying to do a new release, but mocha is causing some issues with tests that I don't want to bypass: https://github.com/captn3m0/slack-utils/pull/7

But even then, this would be a stop-gap measure, since slack-utils relies on Slack Legacy Tokens and not the new API. Using the new API would also give Jinora some super-powers like supporting multiple organizations easily with one-click installs.

[vrongmeal]

Can you post the link to the slack package you're talking about?

[captn3m0]

captn3m0/slack-utils on GitHub, slack-utils on NPM.

On 07-Jun-2019, at 22:13, Vaibhav [email protected] wrote:

Can you link me to the slack package you're talking about?

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[vrongmeal]

Yeah... So I was asking about the package we want to replace slack-utils with.

[captn3m0]

Sorry, was on mobile.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/slack seems to support everything

[vrongmeal]

Thanks! I'll take a look at it :)

[captn3m0]

@vrongmeal Any update on this?

[vrongmeal]

Hi! Sorry I've been a bit busy. Totally forgot about this. I'll ask someone else if anyone is interested in changing the dependency.

[captn3m0]

Please do. I'm planning to delete the npm package by month end (31st July)

[captn3m0]

@vrongmeal Is someone picking this up?

[vrongmeal]

Yeah. @AyanChoudhary has taken this up.