embedded-slack allows you to add a Slack built-in chat on your website. This chat can be connected to your support team.
Note:
⚠️ embedded-slack has been developed as a technical try to determine if Slack can be used from a web page, to allow customers to discuss with a support team. It currently works with a test token so, at this time, using this package in production is not recommanded.
First, you'll need to generate a test token for your Slack team. Then, you need'll to pick one channel ID from your Slack team. If you don't have any channel ID, feel free to copy/paste and run the following code to get one:
// channels.js
const slack = require('slack')
const token = "your_test_token"
slack.channels.list({ token }, (err, data) => {
if (err) {
console.error(err)
return
}
console.log(data)
})$ npm install slack
$ node channels.jsFirst, install embedded-slack and loaders using npm:
$ npm install --save embedded-slack
$ npm install --save-dev node-sass style-loader css-loader sass-loaderThen, add the following loader (lines 3 to 6) to your webpack module loaders:
module: {
loaders: [
{
test: /\.scss$/,
loaders: [ 'style-loader', 'css-loader', 'sass-loader' ]
}
]
}In this example, we create an EmbeddedSlack object with the three mandatory properties:
// index.js
import EmbeddedSlack from 'embedded-slack'
const chat = new EmbeddedSlack({
containerId: 'embedded-slack',
channel: 'your_channel_id',
token: 'your_token'
})<!-- index.html -->
<body>
<div id="embedded-slack" />
</body>By including those lines to your code, if prerequisites and installation are setted, a blue div will appear at the bottom right of your webpage. When you will write a message in this channel from your favorite Slack client, this message will appear in the chat you've just setted; feel free to respond ! 🙂
Slack - Slack Web and RTM API client for Node and the Browser