Recently, I built a Microsoft Teams bot for a client, inside their Django project. It wasn’t fun or easy, but the experience did increase my resiliency as a developer. I also went into this forewarned by my wife, a product manager also known as “the integration queen”, who has experienced the difficulties of the Teams API first-hand.

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Building a Microsoft Teams bot in Django is challenging due to issues such as convoluted documentation, a fragmented Bot Framework Python package, and limited helpful sample apps. Despite these obstacles, the bot can be configured and tested, with alternatives like the Teams Developer Portal simplifying some aspects. Key steps include handling incoming webhook messages, managing channel names, and navigating Adaptive Cards for message formatting. A single-file Django example and related tests are provided to get started.

Django: build a Microsoft Teams bot