django-rest-slack 0.1

A simple, reusable Django app for handling and storing Slack events and slash commands.

# django-rest-slack

A simple, reusable Django app for handling and storing Slack events and slash commands.

## Requirements

- Python 3.6
- PostgreSQL
- Django 2.0+
- DRF

## Setup

- `pip install django django-rest-framework django-rest-slack`

- Include the following to your settings.py:

```
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'psycopg2-binary,
'rest_framework',
'rest_slack',
]
```

- Include the following to your urls.py:

```
from rest_slack.views import DRSEventView, DRSCommandView

api_patterns = ([
path('events/', DRSEventView.as_view()),
path('commands/', DRSCommandView.as_view()),
], 'api')


urlpatterns += [
path('api/v1/', include(api_patterns)),
]
```

- Add your environment variables:

```
export SLACK_CLIENT_ID='your-credential'
export SLACK_CLIENT_SECRET='your-credential'
export SLACK_VERIFICATION_TOKEN='your-credential'
export SLACK_BOT_USER_TOKEN='your-credential'
```

## Running with Zappa

- `pip install zappa`

- `zappa init`

- Create a Postgres DB in AWS RDS

- Update your zappa_settings.json with the `vpc_config` information:
```
"vpc_config" : {
"SubnetIds": [ "subnet-<id>","subnet-<id>" ],
"SecurityGroupIds": [ "sg-<id>" ]
}
```

- `zappa deploy <stage>`

- Update your settings.py with the hostname created in AWS
```
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['host.name']
```

- `zappa update <stage>`

## Todo

- More detailed instructions / examples