Slack Bot Setup

1. Go to https://api.slack.com/apps and click on "Create New App" on the top right corner and choose "From scratch"

2. Fill in the information and click "Create App"

3. Go to "Socket Mode" under Settings pane on the left and enable Socket Mode. Allow only the "connections:write" scope and click on "Generate".

4. Copy the generated token. This will be the environment variable "SLACK_APP_TOKEN"
5. Go to "App Manifest" under Features pane on the left and paste this manifest (change the name accordingly)

• Manifest (YAML)

  display_information:
    name: GoTest
  features:
    bot_user:
      display_name: GoTest
      always_online: false
    shortcuts:
      - name: Delete
        type: message
        callback_id: delete_message
        description: Delete this message
    slash_commands:
      - command: /removeprofane
        description: remove a false profane word
        usage_hint: falseProfaneWord
        should_escape: false
      - command: /addprofane
        description: add a word to list of profanities
        usage_hint: falseNegativeWord
        should_escape: false
      - command: /users
        description: view all chat users
        should_escape: false
      - command: /ban
        description: ban user from chat
        usage_hint: Username
        should_escape: false
      - command: /unban
        description: allow a user back in the chat
        usage_hint: username
        should_escape: false
  oauth_config:
    scopes:
      bot:
        - channels:history
        - chat:write
        - chat:write.customize
        - commands
        - incoming-webhook
        - users:read
  settings:
    event_subscriptions:
      bot_events:
        - message.channels
    interactivity:
      is_enabled: true
    org_deploy_enabled: false
    socket_mode_enabled: true
    token_rotation_enabled: false

6. Go to "OAuth & Permissions" under the Features pane on the left and click on "Install to Workspace" under "OAuth Tokens for Your Workspace". (On the next screen, click on "Allow")

7. Copy the “Bot User OAuth Token” generated. This will be the environment variable "SLACK_AUTH_TOKEN"

8. Put the respective channel IDs in the .env file. For how to find the Channel IDs, you can see here.

9. All set! You can now start integrating the chat frontend with your web app and get people talking!