Writing Slack Bots in JavaScript

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The document discusses how to create Slack chatbots using JavaScript. It covers using the Botkit framework to build bots that integrate with Slack and can connect to external services like IBM Watson. The presentation shows how to configure bots and Botkit to handle messaging with users in Slack and utilize Watson's Conversation service through Botkit middleware to have natural language conversations. Examples are provided of building bots that can lookup weather and return the current time.

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codemotion Berlin
October 2017
How to write your own Slack ChatBots in JavaScript
Ansgar Schmidt
IBM, Developer Advocate
@ansi
ansi.23-5.eu
Niklas Heidloff
IBM, Developer Advocate
@nheidloff
heidloff.net

@ansi @nheidloff
Architecture
User
Slack
Slack
Your Bot
Code
External
Data
Source
API
IBM
Watson
Botkit
Watson
Admin

@ansi @nheidloff
Slack APIs and Programming Model

Node.js open source
framework
Support of various
messaging platforms
Support of various
NLP services
@ansi @nheidloff
Botkit

@ansi @nheidloff
Botkit –
Real Time Messaging

@ansi @nheidloff
Watson Botkit Middleware

Bluemix Trial: http://codemotion17.mybluemix.net/
Botkit: https://botkit.ai/
Sample: https://github.com/nheidloff/slack-watson-bot
Watson Conversation:
https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/conversation.html
@ansi @nheidloff
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