Porting the codebase from CoffeeScript to JavaScript

[cirpo]

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Description

Porting the codebase to plain JavaScript

Hubot codebase moved away from CoffeeScript, is there any plan for hubot-slack?
Is it worth it to start working on it?

[aoberoi]

i absolutely think it makes sense to port from coffeescript to javascript (specifically ES2015). we had already discussed this as a task and wanted to complete it for the next major version bump. the reason its grouped that way is because we'd like to drop support for versions of node that are no longer being maintained and use new javascript features, which may change the API.

[aoberoi]

thanks for making an issue for this though, in the next coming weeks i hope to publish a roadmap (in the form of GitHub milestones) to help bring transparency into what we have planned. in order for me to do that, we need to spend some time pruning the backlog of issues, which is no small feat. if you'd like to help, once those milestones are out, it will be easier to see where that help is most useful.

[cirpo]

@aoberoi sorry, I've just seen your reply. Let me know if and how I can help, thanks

[aoberoi]

just taking notes: https://github.com/decaffeinate/decaffeinate

[mbland]

Something to put on the radar for this issue (though happy to file a new issue if desired): the Robot.react method is currently somewhat broken with Hubot v3.0.0 and above, for clients that require its hubot/es2015 module instead of hubot—such as hubot-test-helper v1.8.0 and above.

The gory details are in mbland/slack-emoji-issues#15, but in a nutshell, Robot.react now gets added to the CoffeeScript-compatible wrapper from hubot/index.js, not to the actual Robot class exported by hubot/es2015.js.

There is a workaround, but it seems like the implementation of this issue should obviate the need for it:

require('hubot-slack')
var CoffeeScriptCompatibleHubot = require('hubot')
var Hubot = require('hubot/es2015')
Hubot.Robot.prototype.react = CoffeeScriptCompatibleHubot.Robot.prototype.react

Of course, since I implemented Robot.react in #363, I'm happy to help out however I can.

[aoberoi]

@mbland thanks for the context. im hoping to address this issue and help you remove your workaround soon!

[joeyguerra]

Is anyone still interested in a javascript port of hubot-slack? I'm in the process of modernizing Hubot and testing with this adapter, which doesn't work with Coffeescript 2. Thus finding myself at a cross roads.

Does anyone still use this?

[joeyguerra]

@cirpo @aoberoi @mbland Do ya'll happen to know any of the org owners that could help get this PR reviewed and merged? #652

[cirpo]

@joeyguerra unfortunately not sorry