Slinger - A Slack Thinger

I can't imagine this is anywhere close to working anymore. Adios.

User scripts and stylesheets for Slack.app.

NOTE: there's no real need to patch the app if you don't want to; simply run /Slack.app/Contents/MacOS/Slack --dev and to enable Developer Tools. Then click View > Developer > Toggle Webapp DevTools to open them. Finally, you can load whatever JS or CSS you like:

$.getScript("https://example.com/my-neat-script.js");

Minor caveat: the script must be served via https because security.

However, if you want Slack load your user scripts and stylesheets every time you open the app or join a new workspace, you can patch Slack.app to do just that! Read on...

Installation

$ ./bin/patch.sh

This will patch Slack.app to load https://zachsnow.github.io/slinger/slinger.js.

NOTE: the following is currently broken: If you'd prefer you can patch it to load any script you'd like. Assuming it is hosted at $URL:

$ ./bin/patch.sh $URL

See https://zachsnow.github.io/slinger/ for more information.

Use

Start Slack. That's it :)

The default user script, slinger.js, does only a few things.

• It binds an additional shortcut: Command + W, to close the current channel, direct message, group, etc.
• It creates a little tiny Slinger link in the lower left corner of the app, for fun.

Development

The easiest way to test development is to load slinger.js in the Slack webapp. Due to browsers and security and all of that, can't just load the file via file:///; instead you need to serve it. First run a server:

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Then load the script into the webapp by opening your console and enter the following:

$.getScript('http://localhost:8000/src/slinger.js');

Oh no, it doesn't work, because security! If you are running Chrome, you can temporarily disable the Mixed Content error with the --allow-running-insecure-content command line argument.