A MVP slack bot that integrates Viima with Slack, written as part of the interview process. Provides simple slash command access to Viima internals from Slack. Written in a few days with no prior experience with any of the tech/products involved except from vim and Firefox.

• Node.js
• ngork - For external access to node server. This also means that the bot slash commands need their URLs updating each time the server is restarted. Use port 3000.
• https
• dotenv- For managing env variables
• body-parser - For taking input from slack
• express - Super easy framework for the bot server

Bot + dependencies

$ git clone https://github.com/ashksmith/viima-test.git
$ cd viima-test
$ npm install https dotenv body-parser express

ngork

$ wget https://bin.equinox.io/c/4VmDzA7iaHb/ngrok-stable-linux-amd64.zip
$ unzip path/to/zip && rm *.zip
$ chmod +x ngork
$ ngork http 3000

As mentioned, slack requires the updated ngork URL each time it's run. It's implementation independant, configure the template .env file with the details. Start bot

$ node skynet-server.js

The bot has 3 methods of interaction between the user, slack and viima.

/viima <category> <status> - Returns a list of ideas that match the status and category. It only supports the
default categories and statuses for now. 
/motd - Returns the same message that pops up when a user logs in to Viima.

The bot will watch for new ideas being posted, test by just adding a new idea to any board.