Feedback Ninja

A slack bot to send anonymous feedback

What This Is

• A slack bot using GO to send anonymous feedback to a feedback channel

How to Use

All you need to do is send a message to the bot and the bot will send that message anonymously to a channel of your choice

• Send Feedback:

• Cancel Feedback:

How to Install

What You Need Before Deploying / Developing

• Create a feedback channel
• create a new slack app in your slack workspace link

Note: slack token is Bot User OAuth Access Token found in https://api.slack.com/apps/<app_id>/oauth?

Deployment with Docker

• Add environment variables following .env
• Make sure you have a proxy pointing to your PORT in .env file file
• Deploy the service wherever you want using the dockerfile included
• Add the url pointing to the proxy to event subscribtions -> https://api.slack.com/apps/<app_id>/event-subscriptions?
• Add the same url pointing to proxy /confirmation to interactive messages -> https://api.slack.com/apps/<app_id>/interactive-messages?
• Send a message to bot and watch the magic happen 🎩

Deployment with Zeit Now

• Make sure you have zeit now cli installed
• Login using now login
• Add the secrets found in now.json using now add
• Deploy by running now or now --prod
• Get your app link from Zeit Dashboard and add it to event subscription
• Add the same url /confirmation to interactive messages -> https://api.slack.com/apps/<app_id>/interactive-messages?

What You Should Do After Deploying

• Add a bot user to the slack app
• Add event subscription for message.im
• Add chat:write:bot permission in https://api.slack.com/apps/<app_id>/oauth?
• Install app

Development

After doing the steps in previous section you should do the following for local development / testing

• Make sure you have docker version: 19.x+ installed
• Run docker-compose up --build in root of project
• Add the link found in localhost:4040 to event subscribtions -> https://api.slack.com/apps/<app_id>/event-subscriptions?
• Add the same link /confirmation to interactive messages -> https://api.slack.com/apps/<app_id>/interactive-messages?
• Send a message to bot and watch the magic happen 🎩

Technologies used

• Golang
• nlopes/slack
• ngrok
• Docker
• Docker-compose
• zeit/now