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Writing Slack Bots in JavaScript
The document discusses how to create Slack chatbots using JavaScript. It covers using the Botkit framework to build bots that integrate with Slack and can connect to external services like IBM Watson. The presentation shows how to configure bots and Botkit to handle messaging with users in Slack and utilize Watson's Conversation service through Botkit middleware to have natural language conversations. Examples are provided of building bots that can lookup weather and return the current time.
Writing Slack Bots in JavaScript
- 1. codemotion Berlin October 2017 Howto write your own Slack ChatBots in JavaScript Ansgar Schmidt IBM, Developer Advocate @ansi ansi.23-5.eu Niklas Heidloff IBM, Developer Advocate @nheidloff heidloff.net
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- 29. Bluemix Trial: http://codemotion17.mybluemix.net/ Botkit:https://botkit.ai/ Sample: https://github.com/nheidloff/slack-watson-bot Watson Conversation: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/conversation.html @ansi @nheidloff Q & A and Resources