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Handling threaded messages

Handling threaded messages - Node.js Tutorial

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Handling threaded messages

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- In this video we will extend our bot so that it can follow up messages in a thread even if it wasn't mentioned. For that we will create a new handle that will listen to message events and check if the incoming message is part of a thread we have a session for. This means it's an ongoing conversation. First of all, we want to factor out now everything that we need for mentions as well as for handling messages into a separate function. So, starting with line 40, I will now copy out that code block starting with this regex for mention, and down to posting the message to slack. And I will simply create the new function, async function, process event, and this function should get a session and the event. Pasting in this code block, and I now have to of course call that from my mention handles, so I add return process event, and I'm passing in the session, enter current event. Now I am implementing new handler…

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