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How do Slack bots work?
There are then two cases:
- You want your bot to react to events happening directly in Slack
- You want your bot to react to events happening on your server
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Getting Started
Below you’ll find my Server.Js file: This server is a blank page, showing and processing nothing. You’ll then need a slack App: just follow this link to create one. The Controller is the brain of your Bot. It contains every skill and configuration.
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My Goals
My bot should be able to manage all the needs a small company could have on Slack:
- Onboarding
- Putting people in touch
- Reminders
- Announcements
- Birthdays /Anniversary
- And many more
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Reviewing the basics
For this program, I’ll use:
- Botkit
- Node JS
- Express Server
- MongoDB
- Slack API & of course
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Unlocking the first case: react to the events happening on Slack
If you give the right Permissions to your App, every time a message is sent on a channel, slacks sends a request to your server with some information. If we want our Bot to react to a simple message like "Hi", we have to give slack an address to send the information to. If we want our Bot to react e...
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Second Case: initiate a conversation with your bot
A Cronjob firing every weekday at 9:00 am is below a Cronjob firing every weekday at 9:00 am. Thanks to the date() Method, the Bot gets today’s date and can compare it to the “Joineddate” of the user.
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Trust your team to do the work
... but check in from time to time.
Watch how the project unfolds in tools like Trello, Confluence, and Slack. That way, you're not bugging direct reports for status updates, but you still understand what's happening.
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