SlackTV is a web app to show most recent messages from a Slack channel, suitable for office TV Dashboards.

At present the best way to use this app is to fork, or download, the repository. To configure SlackTV you need to set 2 environment variables:

• SLACK_KEY : An API key / token as decribed at https://api.slack.com/web
• SLACKTV_CHANNEL : The name of the channel you want to display

You can set these environment variables in the context in which you are running the app, or if you're a little more savvy with clojure you can create a profiles.clj file in the project root and set them there.

To run a development SlackTV from a terminal run bin/lein ring server. Wait a few seconds and after starting the app it should launch your default browser pointing to the app (at localhost:3000)

To run in production you have a few options:

• Run bin/lein with-profile production trampoline run -m slacktv.web. By default the app will run on port 3001, but you can change that by setting a PORT environment variable.
• If running on Heroku just push the source to a new Heroku app - the included Procfile file should do all you need
• If running on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk create a generic 'Single Container' docker application for the application artifact run the following command, and use the resulting zip file: git archive --format=zip HEAD > slacktv.zip
• If you're more Clojure savvy you can compile an Uberjar or Uberwar and use that.

I'd welcome feedback in Github, or on twitter @mikebroberts