billy-reilly / mavs-menus

Alexa skill which allows users to save lists of their favourite dishes and then have them read back in a random order when in need of some menu inspiration. Deployed via AWS Lambda

Alexa skill which allows users to save lists of their favourite dishes and then have them read back in a random order when in need of some menu inspiration. Deployed via AWS Lambda

Improvement TODOs:

• UNIT TESTS
• add a step to the save dish flow which checks that Alexa has interpreted the custom slot correctly
• add multiple strings for each phrase (such as saveSuccess and stop) and shuffle between them so that the experience feels less repetitive
• find a better way to save the suggestions to the DynamoDB than concatenating and stringifying

Useful resources:

• Tutorial series by BigNerdRanch
• Tutorial by Karl Sieburg
• Amazon docs for setting up local instance of DynamoDB
• Alexa speech markup docs