DIY GIPHY app for Microsoft Teams

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I love building apps for Microsoft Teams and it has gotten even easier with the VSCode extension Microsoft Teams Toolkit

Did you know you can create

Tab
Bot
Messaging extensions

for Microsoft Teams using this toolkit?

Search based messaging extensions are fun to build. You search from an external system (via an API), get response in a list/grid and then do some action with the selected item.

So when I was thinking; what is the best way to demo this in an easy fun way? and the answer was GIPHY (one of the most used messaging extension in my chats)

I am one of those people who does not shy away from using GIFs in an informal chat. And basically it is a search based messaging extension app so I knew I had to try build this.

You can also have more control over the search API for GIPHY this way.

Here is how it looks 😁

Now, do you want to build this? Do you want to build an app for Microsoft Teams? 🚀

Step by step process to re-create your own GIPHY app using the Teams Toolkit

The sample is also available in PnP Microsoft Teams Samples here in aka.ms/teams-samples

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