This project is part of an article that explains how to build Slack apps
using AWS lambdas.
This backend goes along the use of WeatherApi platform,
so it will require you create a Free account there and obtain an ApiKey.
The repo uses AWS CDK to deploy an Amazon API Gateway with 2 AWS Lambdas.
weather-slack-modal will serve the Dialog box upon request from Slack and
weather-api will process the input data of the Dialog and post the forecast data.
The file .env.sample contains all the environment variables necessary for running the app.
Rename file .env.sample to .env.
# Token to call Slack's API
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=xoxb-1593429976308-5104745347137-UZ535fmqev1X1uPK1VxUjlwr
# Token used to verify the authenticity of Slack calls
BOT_TOKEN_VERIFICATION=Eqa6c2Gi06DTnAkgelpKVkRF
# ApiKey from WeatherAPI
WEATHER_APP_API_KEY=a624c07c53a34a948a1140226231104
# Remote URL from WeatherAPI
WEATHER_APP_REMOTE_ENDPOINT=https://api.weatherapi.com/v1/forecast.json
# Slack URL for posting messages
SLACK_WEBHOOK_MESSAGE_POST=https://hooks.slack.com/services/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Take into consideration that none of the supplied data on the sample file is valid.
The cloud apps will be using AWS-CDK Toolkit in order to deploy.
$ npm install
$ cdk deployNote: This is not mean to be production ready, had been created with the only purpose
of demonstrating how Slack Apps with Dialogs works. If you would like to use into a
production environment I would suggest to add unit and integration tests.
Equally, make use of AWS Secret Manager to storage tokens, apiKeys and other secrets.