Beacon

A Slack bot that creates a one-way communication channel to people for when you're too sick to deal with human interaction but still need to let people know you're not well.

Content

• Installation
• Customization
• Development
• Version History

Installation

To install this app yourself you have to host it online and install a new app in slack via https://api.slack.com/apps. It will need bot token scope:

• chat:write
• chat:write.customize
• im:read
• im:write
• users:read
• app_mentions:read

And you'll need to copy the User OAuth Token and the Bot User OAuth Token into your .env file which you can get from the OAuth & Permissions page of your app. And create a App-Level Tokens under Basic Information with both connections:write and authorizations:read.

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Lastly you have to add the url to Slack in both the Event Subscriptions and Interactivity & Shortcuts sections. Note that the app is listening on the path slack/events. Inside Event Subscriptions make sure you add the following events under Subscribe to bot events:

• app_home_opened
• app_mention
• message.im

Customization

This app comes with a home screen that allows you to send messages to people in the slack workspace.

You can make changes to the home screen by editing the src/home.js file. Use the https://app.slack.com/block-kit-builder to help you edit this file.

Development

To run this repo please install dependencies via yarn and run the app via yarn start. After changes please run yarn format to run prettier.

Version History

• v1.2.0 - Added health route, Updated dependencies, added Heroku button
• v1.3.0 - Added slack command feedback
• v1.2.0 - Added more information to the default message
• v1.1.0 - Added more details to the home screen
• v1.0.0 - First release