Today's npm package: slack-node

Today's npm package is slack-node

Slack is the new center of all the communication in Companies.

And in your JS apps, while automating tasks for the projects, it would be better to get notified of messages and status as soon as things happen.

slack-node is going to allow you doing the same by binding to one webhook URL.

Let's go ahead and create a webhook to slack channel or user my.slack.com/services/new/incoming-webhook

Now add it to your environment variables as key WEBHOOK

For locala development, we will add this ENV variable to a a.env file and read it via dotenv package.

And then send some test messages to the webhook bound channel.

here's how you can do that:

require('dotenv').config()
const Slack = require('slack-node')
console.log(process.env.WEBHOOK)

const slack = new Slack();
slack.setWebhook(process.env.WEBHOOK);

// slack emoji
slack.webhook({
  channel: "#general",
  username: "webhookbot",
  icon_emoji: ":ghost:",
  text: "test message, test message"
}, function(err, response) {
  console.log(response);
});

// URL image
slack.webhook({
  channel: "#general",
  username: "webhookbot",
  icon_emoji: "http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/rokey/popo-emotions/128/after-boom-icon.png",
  text: "test message, test message"
}, function(err, response) {
  console.log(response);
});

And it will look like as follows:

Stay tuned for tomorrow's package of the Day.

Pankaj Patel

Pankaj Patel

Today's npm package: slack-node