Summary
In this chapter, we saw how to install the prerequisite technologies, how to obtain a Slack token for a bot, and how to set up a new Slack bot project. As a result, you can reuse the lessons learned to easily scaffold a new bot project. You should now be able to program a bot that can send messages to channels, direct messages as well as craft basic responses. Finally, we discussed how to debug a Node.js-based bot using the iron-node debugger.
In the next chapter, we will see how to make our bot more complex by adding third-party API support and by programming our first bot command.
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