create-slappbot

Create Slappbot

Like create-react-app the module initiate a developpement environnement for a SlackBot using Slapp

yarn create slappbot

Requirements

At least Node 6

External documentation

• Slapp library can be found here
• Ngrok library can be found here

Initialize a project

• /!\ Be sure you correctly installed and configured Yarn /!\

• Create an app on Slack, add a bot user in the Bot Users menu

• Launch a yarn create slappbot in your terminal

• The installer will ask you for your Verification Token, which is in the Basic informations, OAuth Access Token and Bot User OAuth Access Token which are in OAuth and Permissions of your Slack App

• Launch yarn ngrok or ngrok http SOME_PORTif you installed Ngrok globally

• Launch yarn dev in another terminal

• To see if your app is working, go on your app, in the Event subscriptions part. Enable events and in the request URL field add [ngrok_url]/slack/event. If your app in localdev is correctly connected with your Slack App you should get a 200.

• That's all :)