Enabling the connection to Slack from Node-RED
Next, let's move on to the preparation of a Slack node on your Node-RED environment. Launch the Node-RED flow editor created on IBM Cloud.
What you do in this step is to install a node to connect to Slack in your Node-RED environment. The method is easy. All you have to do is find and install the node from the Manage palette window, which you've done several times in other chapters.
Follow these steps to proceed:
Important note
I believe that the Node-RED flow editor on your IBM Cloud has already been created as a service (as a Node.js application), but if you haven't done so already, refer to Chapter 6, Implementing Node-RED in the Cloud, to create a Node-RED service on IBM Cloud, before proceeding with this chapter.
- You need to install the node-red-contrib-slack node to use Slack from Node-RED, so click Manage palette:
Figure 12.22 – Open the Manage palette window
- Search the
node-red-contrib...
