Delayed responses to Slack Slash commands

[alabeduarte]

Just found a solution provided by claudia.js that can handle the issue of getting timeout response for some requests:

Slack limits the time to the first slash command response to 3 seconds, which is a problem for longer tasks. If your command needs to talk to external resources that might get blocked, or genuinely need more time to complete, implementing everything in a single response won’t work.

Claudia Bot Builder, since version 1.4.0, offers a simple solution for delayed responses. This tutorial demonstrates how to work around the timing issues by using two important Claudia.js features:

• Enabling recursive Lambda calls
• Intercepting and modifying requests in API Builder

More info here