Build a Serverless Slackbot with Vercel and Upstash Redis
Blog post from Upstash
The tutorial provides a detailed guide on building a serverless Note Taker Slackbot using Vercel for deployment, which allows users to automate tasks within Slack by setting key-value pairs, creating and managing lists, and responding to mentions in general channels. It includes instructions on preparing a Redis database using Upstash, setting up a development environment with Node.js, and organizing the project structure with specific naming conventions for API endpoints. The guide emphasizes creating helper files for tokenizing commands, posting messages to channels, and validating requests from Slack using cryptographic methods. It also covers handling slash commands and events by directing requests to appropriate handlers, and provides steps for running the bot locally with the Vercel CLI and configuring the necessary Slack API credentials and permissions for integration. After successful testing, the bot can be deployed on Vercel's servers, with the option to customize further by visiting the project's GitHub repository for additional resources and deployment assistance.