amb-slackbot

Slackbot for community ambassadors to manage their activities, reimbursement, swag requests, etc.

Technology

• Airtable (metrics tracking, travel requests, etc.)
• WordPress (public activities, profiles, etc.)
• WPAPI (WordPress REST API)
• MongoDB Atlas (Slackbot administration settings)
• GraphQL (TBD)
• TypeScript
• Bolt Slack JS framework (Node)
• ngrok (development tunnel for Slack)

WordPress

• MAMP Pro (for local development)
• Advanced Custom Fields (Pro)
• ACF to REST API (support ACF post / put in REST API)
• JSON Basic Authentication (need to install manually; supports WPAPI for REST API)

Changelog / Notes

• 2020-06-30: Deleted custom post type plugin and replaced with https://gist.github.com/kmaida/ed218a2c54f3d4f5012d8962a4275f9c
• 2020-06-27: Added https://github.com/WP-API/Basic-Auth for node-wpapi auth
• 2020-06-27: Modified MAMP/htdocs/wp-gatsby-amb/wp-includes/functions.php to add lines 10-34 registering REST field for ACF