Interesting, but this needs to be integrated into CI, not Slack, to be taken seriously by teams larger than just a few people. And arguably, I tend to set up CI of any serious project before it goes to production.
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Massive productivity. I get more done on Wednesdays than any other day of the week and it has not affected by collaboration or communication with my team members at all.
Highly recommend this for engineers and designers. Product managers and other roles this might be tough and potentially counter-productive.
Unfortunately, not everyone uses the command line. Not everyone is comfortable with it. Additionally, even if you are (like me and my team), it's not collaborative. If I run a query in my team's room, they can all see the results and we can easily discuss it. Did I mention on the go with Slack for my phone? Can't do that with CLI.
Slack also supports link embedding, images and more. All things not supported by CLI.
I gotta say though, when people talk the “assembly required” with Gulp, I really don’t think it’s anywhere near as bad as it’s made out to be. I may use ~10–20 very small and easy to use Gulp plugins in anywhere from 8 to 10 simple tasks. Setting up a new Gulpfile takes me all of 15 minutes (far less if I use a template from a previous project) and I get complete control over my build. Additionally, wiring Browserify and Gulp together is extremely easy and straightforward. The config style of Webpack feels a whole lot like Grunt and wow have I seen some nasty Gruntfiles before.