slack-honorbot

A Slack bot for giving honors. Honors is given to other users by adding 🎖 and the user's name in the same message.

Team

• Initial Developer: Felipe Fernandez

Prerequisites

Development for this app uses the following technologies:

• Bolt
• Ngrok
• Node
• Mongo
• Mongoose

Setup

First, read the Bolt documentation to configure Slack.
Fork the repo to your own GitHub.
Open your favorite terminal.
Navigate to where you want to clone the repo.
Clone the repo to your computer using the git clone.
Navigate into the cloned repo.
Type npm install to install dependencies.
You will also need setup a Mongo database and get it's URI, you may use Mongo Atlas.

Run

Navigate to the cloned repo using your terminal if not done so already.
Type npm run start to run the app.
Read the Bolt documentation on how to add and run the bot in Slack
Type a 🎖 and a user's name for that user to receive honor.
Go to the bot's home page to see the leaderboard.