Slack Development and You
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Presentation for Orlando Code Camp 2016. Covers Slack development and walks the user through the creation of a slash command bot.
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Slack Development and You
- 1. SLACK DEVELOPMENT AND YOU ANDREW KOZLIK
- 2. WHO AM I? ▸ Andrew Kozlik ▸ Founded Orlando iOS Meetup 2011 ▸ Co-founded Central Florida Android Meetup ▸ Co-captain of Code for Orlando ▸ Mobile Engineer / Technical Lead - UniKey
- 3. BRIEF HISTORY OF SLACK ▸ Messaging platform very similar to IRC ▸ Originally a social RPG called “Glitch” ▸ Glitch failed, but the team was working on a messaging tool ▸ 80,000 users three months after “pre-beta” ▸ $540M raised to date with $3.8B valuation
- 5. TYPES OF SLACK APPS ▸ Slack Applications ▸ Collect integrations into a public interface ▸ Slack Integrations ▸ Pull data out of and send data into Slack ▸ Private for teams only ▸ Free teams have a 10 integration limit
- 6. WHAT I’VE BUILT ▸ Slack Integration ▸ Slash command /meetup ▸ Lists all upcoming Orlando Dev related Meetups ▸ Accepts three parameters - today, week, month ▸ Currently active in Orlando Dev slack
- 7. DEMO TIME
- 8. SO HOW DO WE BUILD THIS? ▸ Enable Integration ▸ Set up slash command ▸ Build application ▸ Deploy to Heroku
- 21. BUILD APPLICATION ▸ Meetup slash command runs off a Node server with Express ▸ Route is defined to accept posts ▸ Meetup API module and Slack module ▸ Check token validity, call Meetup API, post results to Slack ▸ Application is deployed to Heroku
- 22. MMMMMM CODE.
- 24. DEPLOY TO HEROKU ▸ Use Heroku’s CLI tools ▸ heroku login ▸ heroku create ▸ git push heroku master ▸ heroku ps:scale web=1 ▸ heroku open ▸ heroku config:set KEY=value
- 25. FINAL NOTES
- 26. FINAL NOTES ▸ http://github.com/akozlik/slack-meetup ▸ Register Meetup API token ▸ Create slash command ▸ Create .env file ▸ Configure ENV variables on Heroku
- 27. HIT ME UP! ▸ Andrew Kozlik ▸ Twitter - @codefortravel ▸ ODevs - @akozlik ▸ Code for Orlando - http://bit.ly/cfoslack ▸ Go buy a Kēvo!