Materials for "Chatbot in 20 minutes" presentation

This repo contains everything you need to get started building a Slack bot with Botkit. The repo is a modified version of Botkit Starter Slack project.

Getting Started

1. Remix a project on Glitch

2. Change auto-generated project name to one that makes more sense

Configure Slack

1. Create new Slack application here
2. Set client id and client secret values in .env file
3. Set a nice bot icon
4. Open <OAuth & Permissions> and set redirect url to <botUrl>/oauth
5. Open <Interactive Components> and set request url to <botUrl>/slack/receive
6. Open <Event subscriptions> and set request url to <botUrl>/slack/receive
7. Open and enable <Bot User Events>. Enable events, set request url to <botUrl>/slack/receive and include all /message.*/ workspace events
8. Open <Bot Users>, check <Always Show My Bot as Online> and add the bot user
9. Visit the <botUrl> and press <Add to Slack>

Let's code!

1. Invite bot to a channel
2. Implement skills/welcome_on_join.js (reinstall the bot if it doesn work)
3. Implement skills/say_something.js
4. Open <Slash commands> and set up /pic slash command that points to <botUrl>/slack/receive. The Slack should prompt you to reinstall the bot. Follow <reinstall> link
5. Implement skills/pic.js
6. Enhance skills/pic.js with recommendations
7. Implement skills/respond_on_endorsement.js