cheese

🧀 Cheese

The Cheese Touch, but over Slack. Idea taken from Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Why did I make this? Besides having a reason to practice Go, I have no clue. 🤷‍♂

Setup

Creating the Slack app

You’ll need to create a Slack app (not a classic one) with at least the following bot token scopes. The reasons each scope is required are also included:

• channels:history: Used to check if a new user sent a message to pass the cheese touch. Only works if the app has been invited to the channel.
• chat:write: Used for sending messages when the cheese touch starts or gets passed to someone else.
• groups:history: Used to check if a new user sent a message to pass the cheese touch. Only works if the app has been invited to the channel.
• reactions:read: For listening to users that “touch” the cheese via reaction.

Then you’ll need to subscribe the app to a few events. The server has an endpoint open at /slack/events, so when you’re asked for a request URL, just put https://<SERVER>/slack/events. Only the following events are needed:

• message.channels
• message.groups
• reaction_added

Environment variables

Here are all the variables you need to set up, with hints.

# Port to run the app server on
PORT=3000
# Redis database to record the user with the cheese touch
REDIS_URL=redis://…
# App config. Obtained from the "Basic Information" page of your app.
SLACK_CLIENT_BOT_TOKEN=xoxb-…
SLACK_VERIFICATION_TOKEN=xxxx…

Deploying

# Run it
make

# Run it explicitly from a binary
make build
./bin/cheese

After you’ve followed all the above steps, you should see something like this:

Starting Cheese…
Listening on port 3000

Enjoy! 🧀

License

MIT License