Pact Event Bot

A slack event bot built with serverless/typescript/webpack using AWS Lambda & API Gateway, that will recieve slack events and respond to them in various ways

Pre-requisites

• AWS Account
• Slack Account

setup a new bot

1. run yarn install to install dependencies
2. Install a slack app to the workplace
3. On the app, go to the Basic Information page and get the Verification Token setting this as SLACK_SIGNING_TOKEN in your .env file
4. run SLACK_SIGNING_TOKEN=123 sls deploy to deploy the app
5. Add a slack app and click on Event Subscriptions
   1. You will be asked to enter a URL, enter the URL output the from Serverless deploy step
   2. This will respond to the verification challenge, and turn verified
      1. If you have issues, check the aws cloudfront logs for the slack bot lambda
   3. In the Subscribe to events on behalf of users section add the following
      • member_joined_channel
      • team_join
   4. Go to the OAuth Tokens & Redirect URLs page and in the User Token Scopes section and check the following is enabled
      • channels:read
      • groups:read
      • users:read
6. Go to them Install App page and click to add the app to your workspace. You will be asked to grant permissions.
7. Search for an app called bots in the slack app directory
   1. Click Add to slack
   2. Add a suitable bot name and image, This will be shown with the message.
   3. get the API Token and set as SLACK_TOKEN in your .env file
8. Run SLACK_SIGNING_TOKEN=123 SLACK_TOKEN-abc sls deploy to deploy the application complete with slack tokens
9. Create a new user and join General and see an epehemeral message in action.

Hi member, welcome to the Pact Foundation community!
Please join the relevant channels for your Pact implementation, so you can discuss your issues with the audience who can best help you.
If you need help with an issue please check your DM from the welcome bot for more info.

10. Join a new channel and see an ephemeral message in action.

Hi member, Thanks for joining a new Pact Foundation channel. Feel free to ask questions

Existing bot

See https://app.slack.com/app-settings/T5F60FXSQ/A017BFQ1XPB/app-manifest