starter-node-bot
Overview
A simple starting point for creating a Beep Boop hostable, Node.js based Slack bot with botkit
Visit Beep Boop to get the scoop on the the Beep Boop hosting platform. The Slack API documentation can be found here.
Assumptions
- You have already signed up with Beep Boop and have a local fork of this project.
- You have sufficient rights in your Slack team to configure a bot and generate/access a Slack API token.
Usage
Run locally
npm install
SLACK_TOKEN=<YOUR_SLACK_TOKEN> npm start
Things are looking good if the console prints something like:
** API CALL: https://slack.com/api/rtm.start
** BOT ID: witty ...attempting to connect to RTM!
** API CALL: https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage
Run locally in Docker
docker build -t starter-node .`
docker run --rm -it -e SLACK_TOKEN=<YOUR SLACK API TOKEN> starter-node
Run in BeepBoop
If you have linked your local repo with the Beep Boop service (check here), changes pushed to the remote master branch will automatically deploy.
Acknowledgements
This code uses the botkit npm module by the fine folks at Howdy.ai.
License
See the LICENSE file (MIT).