pokebot

Pokébot is a Slackbot that, amongst other things, answers the question "Who's that Pokémon?". It uses typeorm as an ORM on top of Postgres.

You'll need the following environment variables set:

export DATABASE_URL="postgresql://user:@localhost/db_name"

export SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET=""
export SLACK_CLIENT_ID=""
export SLACK_CLIENT_SECRET=""

Local dev setup

• Create a postgres database called pokebot.
• yarn install

Create a development Slack app

• Run yarn dev to get the dev server running
• npx ngrok http 3000 to get a local tunnel to give to Slack
• Create a Slack app with Event Subscriptions enabled and the following Oauth scopes:

Bot scopes: users:read, chat:write, app_mentions:read User scopes: users:read

Point the Events Subscription request URL at https:///api/event.

• Use the Add To Slack button on the index page to install the app to your test workspace.

Data import

• run yarn run import to import the Pokémon data.
• NB. to create tables as well as importing data, run CREATE_TABLES=true yarn run import.