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.

Getting Started

My bot should be able to manage all the needs a small company could have on Slack: <ul><li>Onboarding </li><li>Putting people in touch </li><li>Reminders </li><li>Announcements </li><li>Birthdays /Anniversary </li><li>And many more </li></ul>

My Goals

For this program, I’ll use: <ul><li>Botkit </li><li>Node JS </li><li>Express Server </li><li>MongoDB </li><li>Slack API &amp; of course </li></ul>

Reviewing the basics

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 every time it hears "hello", we can simply add This.Hears() Function to our Controller. If we want our Bot 

Unlocking the first case: react to the events happening on Slack

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.

Second Case: initiate a conversation with your bot

There are then two cases: <ul><li>You want your bot to react to events happening directly in Slack </li><li>You want your bot to react to events happening on your server </li></ul>

How do Slack bots work?

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