How to build a Slack bot in Node.js and deploy it to AWS

Rob Taylor
8 min readDec 1, 2019

Slack apps are great as small, hobby projects. They can also be used to improve productivity in a business. Or just for fun. In this guide I’ll take you through how to build an app for Slack and deploy it to AWS using Terraform and CircleCI.

Recently I created a Slack app that can be used for sharing secrets which was a great learning experience. I used this as the…

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Rob Taylor

I’m a professional full-stack developer. I love learning new technologies and helping others learn by sharing knowledge. https://www.robbytaylor.io