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Building Slack Event Subscriptions: A Developer's Guide

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

The Slack Events API pushes HTTP POST requests to your app's endpoint when subscribed activities occur, eliminating the need for polling. This guide covers URL verification, signature validation, and handling retries and deduplication. It provides code examples for setting up an Express endpoint that processes events like messages and user joins.

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The article is a practical walkthrough for developers, but its value lies in highlighting the often-overlooked plumbing—acknowledgment, retries, deduplication—that can trip up teams building Slack integrations.
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