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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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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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