Take Control of Slack

Appendix A: Install Apps

Slack wants to provide more features—way more features!—than the company could ever create on their own. Their approach is to be a platform upon which other services can build. This commitment, and third-party developers’ embrace of Slack, has become one of the best things about the service.

Making conduits to other ecosystems possible, and providing access to extra single-purpose tools, even tiny ones, makes Slack richer and more useful. Slack calls these third-party connections apps.

Note: Slack’s previous development approach was called “integrations,” and some legacy integrations may still be found in older Slack workspaces. Slack recommends replacing them.

For example, your workspace may be using an app that ties ...