Slack Bot Template for Production Railway 🚃🤖

1) Create your app

Sign up or login and create your app.
https://api.slack.com/apps

2) Select OAuth and Permission -> Bot Token Scopes. Then add the following Bot Token scopes shown below.

• app_mentions:read

• channels:history

• channels:read

• chat:write

• commands

• im:history

• mpim:history

  

Then Install the app to the Workspace.

3) Go to Railway and deploy my template

Add the following secret variables for deployment.

• SLACK_BOT_TOKEN (located in OAuth & Permission)
• SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET (located in Basic Information)
• SLACK_BOT_USER_ID (located in Basic Information)

Once your variable are added deply the template

4) Once your the slack template is deployed. Go to setting and generate your domain

Settings → Networking → Gen erate Domain

5) Once your domain is set up then go back to slack API and go to your Event Subscription

turn on Enable Events. Then in your request url paste your domain in this specific format.

https://{your-domain}/slack/events

Add the following scope in the Event Subscriptions below. Then Save changes.

6) Turn on Interactivity & Shortcuts and paste in your request url and save changes

7) Go to Slash Commands → Create new Command

Here are the requiremnets for your slack comand

• Command Name (has to be the states the same in the code)
• Request Url ( [http://{your-domain}/slack/events )
• Short Description

here are the Command Names in the template.

• /command_example
• /modal_example
• /button_example

Once your done invite your slack bot to a channel and try out the template Example