Mocker

A Slack app to annoy your friends.

Getting Started

Setting Up Your Slack Environment

1. Set up a new slack workspace for development purposes. (https://slack.com/get-started#/create)
2. Go to: https://api.slack.com/apps and click Create New App
3. Choose your newly created workspace as your Development Workspace and click Create App.
4. Configure Ngrok for your newly created bot: https://api.slack.com/tutorials/tunneling-with-ngrok
5. Add your bot oauth token as MUZZLE_BOT_TOKEN and your bot user token as MUZZLE_BOT_USER_TOKEN to your environment variables. Alternatively, you can pass these in as command line arguments.
6. Your app should have the following features per the Slack management web app:

• Slash Commands
  • /mock - Request URL: <ngrokUrl>/mock
  • /define - Request URL: <ngrokUrl>/define
  • /muzzle - Request URL: <ngrokUrl>/muzzle
  • /muzzlestats - Request URL: <ngrokUrl>/muzzle/stats
  • /confess - Request URL: <ngrokUrl>/confess
  • /list - Request URL: <ngrokUrl>/list/add
  • /listreport - Request URL: <ngrokUrl>/list/retrieve
  • /listremove - Request URL: <ngrokUrl>/list/remove
  • /counter - Request URL: <ngrokUrl>/counter
  • /repstats - Request URL: <ngrokUrl>/rep/get
  • /walkie - Request URL: <ngrokUrl>/walkie

Each of the slash commands should have Escape Channels, users and links sent to your app checked.

• Event Subscriptions

  • Request URL: <ngrokUrl>/muzzle/handle
  • Subscribe to Workspace Events:
  • messages.channels
  • reaction_added
  • reaction_removed
  • team_join

• Permissions

  • admin
  • channels:history
  • chat:write:bot
  • chat:write:user
  • commands
  • files:write:user
  • groups:history
  • reactions:read
  • users.profile:read
  • users:read

Setting Up Your MYSQL Instance

1. Be sure to have mysql installed and configured.
2. Create a database called mockerdbdev.
3. mysql -u <user> -p < DB_SEED.sql
4. You should now have a fully seeded database.

Running Locally

1. npm install
2. Add the following environment variables for typeORM:

  TYPEORM_CONNECTION: mysql,
  TYPEORM_HOST: localhost,
  TYPEORM_PORT: 3306,
  TYPEORM_USERNAME: <USER-NAME-FOR-MYSQL>,
  TYPEORM_PASSWORD: <PASSWORD-FOR-MYSQL>,
  TYPEORM_DATABASE: mockerdbdev,
  TYPEORM_ENTITIES: /absolute/path/to/mocker/src/shared/db/models/*.ts,
  TYPEORM_SYNCHRONIZE: true

3. npm run start