Summary

Continuing from Chapter 6, Building a Cooking Application Using Alexa, you applied advanced topics, such as creating dialog models to collect missing slots, and applied them to the Henry's Kitchen app. Also, you learned to manage and save application state to Microsoft Azure Redis in order to handle more complex conversation flows. The chapter also introduced more comprehensive logging, which allows the Node.js server handling Alexa requests to log events and data to Microsoft Azure Blob storage. You learned to download the logs and review them to understand the voice application flows and interaction between Alexa and the server. Finally, after understanding the submission policy, the application was submitted to the marketplace.
In the next chapter, you will utilize and slightly modify the same server code, and learn to convert an Alexa skill to a Google Dialogflow...