Pindar / learning-alexa-skills-advanced-setup

Learning alexa skill development: Advanced setup

Alexa skill development done right: Advanced setup

This repo is used as template for an advanced alexa skill. Compared to the basic setup this repo also comes with a DynamoDB, an S3 storage and the code get's bundled to speed up deployment.

The details and motivations are explained in a medium post.

Prerequisites

• Node & NPM

Improvements

• DynamoDB as session storage
• S3 for file hosting
• webpack to minify deployment sources

Run

All commands are described in detail in the basic setup.

Here's just a short recap:

• npm install: install everything
• npm run deploy:init: first time deployment
• npm run deploy: incremental deploys
• npm run logs:tail: watch skill logs in console
• npm run deploy-skill:init: connect project to amazon developer console
• npm run deploy-skill: deploy skill infos to amazon developer console