Parking Slackbot

Useful for companies that has limited parking slots

Features

1. Notify others where you parked
2. See available slots with parking schema
3. Blame someone for not using chatbot

Environment variables

1. SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET -- get it from slack
2. SLACK_BOT_TOKEN -- get it from slack
3. DATABASE_URL -- format: postgres://{user}:{password}@{hostname}:{port}/{database-name}
4. AVAILABLE_SLOTS -- List of available parking slots in your company
5. IMAGE_URL -- Link to the parking scheme (can be link to image that is in slack - https://slack-files.com/XXXX)

Deployment

Bot is developed using Node.js and can be hosted on any server. You would need the following services:

1. Server to host Node.js
2. SQL database (PostgreSQL)
3. Public API url that can be accessed by slack

Heroku

Probably the simplest way is to deploy on Heroku:

1. Create Heroku account - Heroku account
2. Install Heroku CLI - CLI
3. Run heroku create {insert-app-name} (created app on heroku)
4. Rune heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev (adds Heroku PostgreSQL)
5. Run heroku git:remote -a {insert-app-name} (connects git to heroku)
6. Set the following environment variables: SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET, SLACK_BOT_TOKEN, DATABASE_URL, AVAILABLE_SLOTS, IMAGE_URL. As an example: heroku config:set AVAILABLE_SLOTS=5,43,53,75
7. Run git push heroku master (deploys application to heroku)

Useful info regarding slackbot setup and heroku deployment here