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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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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

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

Building a bot

Let us now look at the steps to build a chatbot. Here we will use the botbuilder library and create a bot using Node.js:

  1. Create a Node.js project called foodie-bot:
> npm init
  1. Install the two libraries that we need to use:
> npm install botbuilder --save
> npm install restify --save
  1. Create a file named app.js. 
  2. In app.js, paste the following code (from the Bot Framework tutorials):
var restify = require('restify');
var builder = require('botbuilder');

// Lets setup the Restify Server
var server = restify.createServer();
server.listen(process.env.port || process.env.PORT || 3978, function () {
console.log('%s listening to %s', server.name, server.url);
});


// Create chat connector for communicating with the Bot Framework Service
var connector = new builder.ChatConnector({
appId: process.env.MICROSOFT_APP_ID,
appPassword...
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