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Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development Build chatbots and voice user interfaces with Chatfuel, Dialogflow, Microsoft Bot Framework, Twilio, and Alexa Skills

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788294669
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Srini Janarthanam Srini Janarthanam
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Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Tour Guide for Your City 3. Let's Talk Weather 4. Building a Persona Bot 5. Let's Catch a Train 6. Restaurant Search 7. The News Bot 8. My TV Guide 9. My Man Friday 10. More Resources

Backend processing

Conversational tasks usually need to be backed up by backend tasks. For instance, booking a table in a restaurant is not just a conversation, it also involves the action of booking a table. This is a backend task where the information concerning the booking is sent over to a booking server as an HTTP request. In this section, we will explore how to use the JSON API card to enable backend tasks.

Before we start using a JSON API card, we need a URL that can take a few parameters and carry out a backend task. Let's build a dummy backend service that can book a table given the restaurant name, number of people, and the time. To do this, we have to build a Node.js web app and host it on the cloud:

  1. Create a directory called Eddie-bot. In this directory, we need three files: index.js, package.json, and Procfile.
  2. Create the package file, package.json, which...
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