README.md

Slack Boltjs Starter

Deploy a Slack Bot onto Cyclic using Boltjs framework.

Setup

1. Deploy this starter
   • Copy the app URL for use when creating the slack app
2. Create Slack App
   • Follow this quick start to create a Slack App (aka bot): https://api.slack.com/start/building/bolt-js
   • The events url is the URL of your app with /slack/events
   • Example: https://some-fun-animal.cyclic.app/slack/events/
3. Set secret values
   • Copy your secret values to an .env file in your fork of this repo
   • Copy your secret values your Cyclic App
4. Confirm Events URL
   • You will need to set the secret values before you can register your events url

Example Secret Values

SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET=somelongalphanumericwithouthyphens
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=xoxb-some-long-alpha-numeric-with-hyphens

Further References

• Slack Boltjs Concepts: https://slack.dev/bolt-js/concepts
• Slack Dev console: https://api.slack.com/apps