Probot & AWS Lambda example

This repository is an example of how to deploy the "Hello, World" of probot apps to AWS Lambda using aws sam.

Local setup

Install dependencies

npm install

Start the server

npm start

Follow the instructions to register a new GitHub app.

Deployment

Get the following details about your GitHub app:

• APP_ID
• WEBHOOK_SECRET
• PRIVATE_KEY

1. Setup your aws cli creds
2. set your aws profile by running export AWS_PROFILE=<profile>
3. run sam build
4. run sam deploy --guided

Subsequent deploys to the same stack to the default environment...

1. run sam build
2. run sam deploy

Debugging locally

There are two options to debug locally.

Debug via unit tests

1. Intall nyc and mocha: npm install -g nyc mocha
2. From the VSCode RUN AND DEBUG menu select Mocha and click the green arrow to start debugging.

Debug by launching probot locally and sending it a payload

1. Point your GitHub app to your local using something like smee.io
2. Copy .env-sample to .env and populate with values specific for your GitHub app. See here for more details.
3. From the VSCode RUN AND DEBUG menu select Launch Probot and click the green arrow to start debugging.

Docker

# 1. Run npm install
npm install

# 2. Build container
docker build -t my-probot-app .

# 3. Srouce your .env file
export $(cat .env | xargs)

# 3. Start container
docker run \
    -e APP_ID=$APP_ID \
    -e PRIVATE_KEY=$PRIVATE_KEY \
    -e WEBHOOK_SECRET=$WEBHOOK_SECRET \
    my-probot-app

License

ISC