It's really easy to get your Meteor app to talk to you via Slack. Once we get things setup, posting to slack will be as easy as logging to the console:

Slack.notify "*#{Meteor.user().email()}* just signed up"

And you'll see something like this in Slack...

So let's get started...

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Step 1: Get webhook URL from Slack

We’re going to use Slack's web hook integration feature.

1. Visit https://XXXXXX.slack.com/services/new/incoming-webhook
2. Choose a channel
3. Get the URL

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Step 2: A little Meteor work

We're using meteor-workers in this example to queue background work, so the API call doesn’t block the main node process on the server. FYI, you should have a background worker strategy for your Meteor app, and meteor-workers is a pretty easy way to get started.

Add Meteor  packages

meteor add http
meteor add differential:workers

Add code

settings.json

{
"slack": {
"url": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXXXXXXX/XXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
}
}

slack.coffee

class @Slack
@notify: (text) ->
if process.env.NODE_ENV is "production"
Job.push new SlackJob text: text

slackJob.coffee

class SlackJob extends Job
handleJob: ()->
HTTP.post Meteor.settings.slack.url,
data:
channel: "#useractivity"
username: "The App"
text: @params.text
icon_url: "https://usercycle.com/img/icon.png"
link_names: 1

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It's that easy.