Innovative Board

A project for studying how to use Firebase (100% Firebase-powered app).

Idea is realy simple. User posts his ideas then teamate can vote. More detail: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/innovation-accounting-action-chris-shayan

This application includes two components:

Web app, in web folder
Slack bot, used for intergrating web app with slack, in slackbot folder

In current version, user can connect to web application via slack only, no register module supported yet.

How to run web app

First you have to register your own Firebase account (https://www.firebase.com), and create an application on firebase.
Rename config.js.template to config.js and update FIREBASE_URL value to your firebase application URL e.g https://your_app_name.firebaseio.com (web/src/app/config.js)
Installed required npm modules and bower packages (powered by gulp)
```
 $cd web
 $npm install 
 $bower install 
```
Develop on localhost
```
 $gulp serve
```
Pack and prepare for deploying
```
 $gulp
```
Deploy to firebase static host (see https://www.firebase.com/docs/hosting/guide/deploying.html)

Build slack bot

Require nodejs
Rename keys.js.template to keys.js
- firebase_app: Firebase application name (eg: ib-slack)
- firebase_key: Firebase SECRETS key https://your_firebase_app.firebaseio.com/?page=Admin
- slack: slack authentication key (https://api.slack.com/web)
- innovative_webste: where you host your website. If your use firebase statis hosting, it will be: http://your_firebase_app/firebaseapp.com
Run app
```
 $cd slackbot
 node app.js
```

However, prefer using pm2 (https://github.com/Unitech/pm2) to manage node app.

Hosting your host somewhere e.g Digital Occean or Heroku

Intergate slack with Application

Outcome (required)

Send info from slack to web-app, included register user

Register outcome webhook intergration at https://your_slack_domain.slack.com/services/new
Set up outcome info, point to slackbot url: http://your_slackbot_domain:4000/idea

Income (optional)

Send notify to slack

Register income webhook intergration at (optional)
Set up income info, copy Webhook URL from slack

Access your firebase appication database, find your group data at group/your_group_id, add field: slack_webhook with this url

 <your_app>
     groups
         <your_group>
             slack_xyz
                 created_date: 1234
                 name: '...'
                 slack_webhook: "https://hooks.slack.com/services/..."

Update SLACK_NOTIF_URL in web app config (web/src/app/config.js) then build and deploy again.
```
 SLACK_NOTIF_URL = "http://your_slackbot_domain:4000/notif";
```

Register account

Say hi with keyword defined in outcome webhook let slack bot create account for you. For example, keywork is ic, so

    ic, hi
    <slack bot reply here>

Post an idea:

    ic, bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla (at least 7 words)

Login wep app: after say hi, now your account has already been registered with email that you used with slack account. Use forget password function to get random password.

Enjoy

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