In OpenWhisk, a catalog of packages gives you an easy way to enhance your app with useful capabilities, and to access external services in the ecosystem. Examples of external services that are OpenWhisk-enabled include Cloudant, The Weather Company, Slack, and GitHub.
The catalog is available as packages in the /whisk.system namespace. See Browsing packages for information about how to browse the catalog by using the command line tool.
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| /whisk.system/alarms | Package to create periodic triggers |
| /whisk.system/cloudant | Package to work with Cloudant noSQL DB service |
| /whisk.system/github | Package to create webhook triggers for GitHub |
| /whisk.system/messaging | Package to work with Message Hub service |
| /whisk.system/pushnotifications | Package to work with Push Notification service |
| /whisk.system/slack | Package to post to the Slack APIs |
| /whisk.system/watson-translator | Package for text translation and language identification |
| /whisk.system/watson-speechToText | Package to convert speech into text |
| /whisk.system/watson-textToSpeech | Package to convert text into speech |
| /whisk.system/weather | Package to work with Weather Company Data service |
| /whisk.system/websocket | Package to work with a Web Socket server |