Skip to content

docs: updates for combined quickstart #2661

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
haleychaas merged 1 commit into from
Sep 30, 2025
Merged

docs: updates for combined quickstart #2661

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
9 changes: 4 additions & 5 deletions docs/english/getting-started.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
---
sidebar_label: Quickstart
title: Quickstart with Bolt for JavaScript
---

# Quickstart with Bolt for JavaScript

Comment on lines -5 to -6
Copy link
Member

@zimeg zimeg Sep 30, 2025

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

🌟 praise: Awesome catch for unfurling IIRC?!

This quickstart guide aims to help you get a Slack app using Bolt for JavaScript up and running as soon as possible!

When complete, you'll have a local environment configured with a customized [app](https://github.com/slack-samples/bolt-js-getting-started-app) running that responds to a simple greeting.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -292,8 +291,8 @@ Follow along with the steps that went into making this app on the [building an a

You can now continue customizing your app with various features to make it right for whatever job's at hand. Here are some ideas about what to explore next:

- Explore the different events your bot can listen to with the [`event`](/tools/bolt-js/concepts/event-listening) method. All of the [events](/reference/events) are listed on the API docs site.
- Bolt allows you to call [Web API](/tools/bolt-js/concepts/web-api) methods with the client attached to your app. There are [over 200 methods](/reference/methods) on the API docs site.
- Explore the different events your bot can listen to with the [`event`](/tools/bolt-js/concepts/event-listening) method. See the full events reference documentation [here](/reference/events).
- Bolt allows you to call [Web API](/tools/bolt-js/concepts/web-api) methods with the client attached to your app. There are [over 200 methods](/reference/methods) available.
- Learn more about the different [token types](/authentication/tokens) and [authentication setups](/tools/bolt-js/concepts/authenticating-oauth). Your app might need different tokens depending on the actions you want to perform or for installations to multiple workspaces.
- Receive events using HTTP for various deployment methods, such as deploying to [Heroku](/tools/bolt-js/deployments/heroku) or [AWS Lambda](/tools/bolt-js/deployments/aws-lambda).
- Read on [app design](/surfaces/app-design) and compose fancy messages with blocks using [Block Kit Builder](https://app.slack.com/block-kit-builder) to prototype messages.
- Read up on [app design](/surfaces/app-design) and compose fancy messages with blocks using [Block Kit Builder](https://app.slack.com/block-kit-builder) to prototype messages.