Redis Backplane for Hubots (opens in new tab)

We used it back in the day as well for some non-essential stuff. This post caused me to dig into where hubot stands. It looks like gijoeyguerra upgraded the code to ESM: https://github.com/hubotio/hubot and also wrote/upgraded the adapters for Slack, Teams, etc: https://github.com/hubot-friends

It would be cool to see this get legs again. If nothing else, a maintained cross-platform, hackable bot framework is useful! This caused me to do some more searching, and I stumbled across: https://joeyguerra.com/blog/2023/resuscitating-hubot.html

Nice work joeyguerra!

I used it in ~2018-2020 on Slack (as well as waaay back on Campfire), and it was showing its age. The Node ecosystem, for all its faults, has come a long way since Hubot was created, and working with Hubot felt dated. I believe the original was written in CoffeScript!

That said, if all you want is a few quick scripts hooked up to chat, it's still pretty low effort. Alternatives require a fair bit more setup, and while they're better for it, maybe you don't need that.

I have confirmed that at least three people are using it. I don’t trust npm download numbers.

I personally use it a lot for the same use cases people use postman.

When I left GitHub in 2022 it was still heavily used for so many things. Unsure if it's still in use there today but it wouldn't surprise me.