BotKit crashes on Heroku due to port issue

[DarrenN]

BotKit crashes on Heroku due to port issue

[JaroslavHolan]

Here is an example how to setup Procfile Heroku config to run slack_bot.js as a background process:
worker: node slack_bot.js

[benbrown]

@DarrenN This is because, by default, Heroku expects your process to be a web server, and if it does not open a web port, it fails.

You can solve this in one of two ways:

• You can tell Heroku to run this as a background process instead of a web process. This will allow it to run without listening for web traffic.
• You can put a simple web server in y our app that does nothing (or serves a status page or something...) Botkit comes with a wrapper for the Express webserver that can be used to do this...

https://github.com/howdyai/botkit#controllersetupwebserver