Tutorial: Build a Serverless API Back-end for Slack

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by FaaS (Functions-as-a-service) offerings make it relatively easy to provide an HTTP endpoint which hosts the Webhook logic which can be as simple as sending an email to something as entertaining as responding with funny GIFs!

Funcy tweaks it a bit by simply returning a (single) random image for a search keyword using the Giphy Random API.

This will install the app to your Slack workspace to test your app and generate the tokens you need to interact with the Slack API.

Now that the Azure Functions app is up and running, you need to update it to seed the Giphy API Key and Slack Signing Secret as environment variables.

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