What's the difference between a Hubot Package and a Hubot Script?

Question

I'm using Hubot with Slack and I have already successfully integrated quite a few different NPM packages with it.

I'm considering developing some new functionalities but I'm not sure how to proceed.

How do I determine if what I need to do is properly accomplished by a Script? Or, when to use an NPM Package?

Answer 1

There's no difference.

On the official website: "Hubot / GitHub" as of December/15 we can see this description and links:

We also maintain a: repository of community Hubot scripts and an organization of community Hubot packages that you can add to your own robot.

The first link ( https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts ) links to a GitHub Repo called "github/hubot-scripts" and the second one links to a GitHub Organization called "Hubot Scripts" that is actually a collection of scripts.

Answer 2

It's better always write as a npm plugin if you want share with others You can use this as template https://github.com/gasolin/webby-plugin

In fact, there's no difference https://github.com/github/hubot/blob/master/bin/hubot#L104

but with npm plugin you can define your plugin library dependencies better