• A Bot is a script that is programmed to interact with users as if it's a person.
• In Slack, these are called "bot users," or "bots" for short.
• These bots will be members of our class Slack organisation.
• We will use a framework to create our own bots with interactive behaviours that we specify with our code.

• Hubot is a framework built by GitHub to speed up the process of developing bot users on a variety of platforms, including Slack.
• It includes built-in functionality for performing common bot tasks (posting images, etc.).
• We will use the Hubot framework to create our bots
• It is built using Node.js and CoffeeScript.

• CoffeeScript is a variant of JavaScript intended to be more readable and faster to type.
• Only JavaScript can run in browsers so CoffeeScript has to be compiled into JavaScript so that it can be run.
• Many Hubot examples are written in CoffeeScript, but you can write Hubot code in vanilla JavaScript without any problem.

• Yeoman is a set of tools that provides a scaffolding (basic structure) for getting web apps up and running quickly.
• We'll be using of a Yeoman tool called yo, which takes care of things like:
• 1. dependencies
  2. build tasks
  3. configuration

• Markdown is a markup language used for creating formatted text documents.
• Easier to use than HTML for basic tasks.

• Heroku is a platform for hosting and running apps in the cloud.
• We'll be using Heroku to host the code for our Hubot, so it can run independently of our machines.

module.exports = function(bot) {
  bot.hear(/Hello!/, function(res) {
    return res.send("Hi there!");
  });
};
module.exports = function(bot) {
  bot.hear(/Yo/, function(res) {
    return res.send("Heya");
  });
};
							

bro-bot> Hello!
bro-bot>
bro-bot> Yo
bro-bot> Heya