sis

A distributable slack app made using Slack Bolt. It is a chat-bot which can handle messages and commands from slack and perform tasks. It is directed at organizations to use this as a utility bot to render tasks from slack itself using messages or slash commands.

Services

We use the following services in our app

• Redis: Used to logout and blacklist users. Serves as cache for contests API. Download from here

ENV

We use dotenv package to load our environment variables and thus a .env file with following variables nneds to be setup in the root directory:

SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET=<secret key that slack uses to sign every request>
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=<xoxb bot token to subscribe to events>
SLACK_APP_TOKEN=<xapp app token for setup changes over all installations>
REDIS_URL=<connection string of redis server>
PORT=optional:<port to be used>

Setup

Download the github repository or clone it.

git clone https://github.com/NanoNish/sis.git

Now install redis services redis and start the redis server. To run the project locally use these env variables.

REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379

Install all the package dependencies.

npm ci

Now you can run the app using the start script

npm run start

Components

src folder is the source folder where all the magic happens

• app.ts driver file of the project
• router.ts message to function/script mapping
• services all service related functions are kept here
• scripts functions to decide the response and tasks
• utils utility functions such as validators etc

💬 For commit messages

Please start your commits with these prefixes for better understanding among collaborators, based on the type of commit:

feat:     (addition of a new feature)
refactor: (refactoring the code: optimization/ different logic of existing code - output doesn't change, just the way of execution changes)
docs:     (documenting the code, be it readme, or extra comments)
fix:      (bug fixing)
chore:    (chore - beautifying code, indents, spaces, camelcasing, changing variable names to have an appropriate meaning)
patch:    (patches - small changes in code, mainly UI, for example color of a button, increasing size of tet, etc etc)
conf:     (configurational settings - changing directory structure, updating gitignore, add libraries, changing manifest etc)

Please refer to conventional commits for better commit messages.