This tutorial explains how to build a Slackbot (or Slack application) that interacts with the Kinsta API to retrieve information and delivers it as real-time messages to a designated Slack channel using the Slack API Incoming Webhooks. Read the full article.
- Clone or fork the repository.
During the deployment process, Kinsta will automatically install dependencies defined in your package.json file.
When deploying, add the following environment variables:
SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET="YOUR_SIGNING_SECRET"
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN="xoxb-YOUR_BOT_TOKEN"
SLACK_WEBHOOK_ID="YOUR_WEBHOOK"Kinsta automatically sets the PORT environment variable. You should not define it yourself and you should not hard-code it into the application. Use process.env.PORT in your code when referring to the server port.
app.listen(process.env.PORT || 3000, () => {
console.log(`Server is running on port ${process.env.PORT || 3000}`);
});When deploying an application Kinsta will automatically create a web process with npm start as the entry point. Make sure to use this command to run your server. If you would like to use another command you will need to modify the runtime process in MyKinsta.
"scripts": {
"start": "node app.js"
},Whenever a deployment is initiated (through creating an application or re-deploying due to an incoming commit), the npm install and npm build commands are run.
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