Bots Playground is powered with a modern code editor (we use CodeMirror).
We added code completions like those in professional code editors. Playground editor now suggests SmartBots API function names and objects.
It also suggests context-aware parameters for SmartBots API and embedded Playground functions.
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Incoming webhooks are now available at Bots Playground, giving your scripts an ability to receive data directly from your servers:
const webhook = await http.requestWebhook();
Bot.on("playground_webhook", (event) => {
console.log("Data received:", event);
});This addition opens up a wide range of possibilities:
We’ve released a set of updates aimed at making the SmartBots Playground more reliable and easier to tailor to individual scripts.
What’s new:
Bots Playground is fully operational again. All scripts are now running smoothly.
The Playground was originally launched as a proof-of-concept to support a few dozen user scripts. Since then, it’s grown significantly and now runs several thousand scripts simultaneously. This scale has brought engineering challenges.
During our recent platform migration, we upgraded the JavaScript sandboxes to run across multiple servers. However, a configuration oversight (specifically, a network socket limitation on the main Playground process) caused an unexpected cluster-wide crash.
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