Are there any resources that you like, that give an accelerated intro on building Slack bots? Thanks! :)
You can start with hubot, githubs robot :https://hubot.github.com/
which already has some slack stuff built
If you're building a Slack bot, enter the AWS competition while you're at it: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/enter-the-aws-serverless…
It maybe not 100% what you are looking for, but I found this to be a good read. chrisdermody.com/slack-custom-slash-command-check…
How to Build a Slack Chatbot In Node.js using Botkit codequs.com/p/B1FzjMuF/how-to-build-a-slack-chatb…
Stephan de Vries
Full stack developer, enthusiastic about new technologies.
Yes! I recommend using the Howdy AI Botkit which makes it very easy to create a Slack bot. Here's a simple 'hello world' bot:
var Botkit = require('botkit') var controller = Botkit.slackbot() controller.spawn({ token: <my_slack_bot_token>, }).startRTM() controller.hears( 'hello', ['direct_message', 'direct_mention', 'mention'], function (bot, message) { bot.reply(message, 'Hello world!') } )As soon as you run the following with
node, you can send 'hello' as a DM to the bot and it'll reply with 'Hello world!'.If you want to deploy the bot, I recommend using now or Heroku. It's free, very easy to setup and it'll make your bot always available!