marmelab / tobaccobot

A SMS bot to stop smoking, build with Node.js and serverless

Archived Repository The code of this repository was written to illustrate the blog post Retour d'expérience sur le développement d'un chatbot en Node.js avec serverless This code is not intended to be used in production, and is not maintained.

#tobaccobot

##install Requirements:

• With docker
  • Docker
  • docker-compose
• without docker
  • node 4.3.2
  • Java Runtime Engine (JRE) version 6.x or newer
  • dynamoDB

    make dk_install

or without docker ()

    make install

Be careful: make install will not work properly if using node 5 or newer.

##development

make dk_run

will use docker to run

• webpack-dev-server: webpack server to serve front-end static page (port 3001)
• serverless-dev-server: serverless webpack plugin to serve lambda (port 3000)
• dynamodb (port 8000)

To initialize smoker table do

make dk_setup_smoker_table

The lambda can be tested by sending request on port 3000

POST /subscribe

{
    "name": "john",
    "phone": "0123456789",
}

POST bot_conversation

{
    "phone": "0123456789",
    "text": "hello world"
}

Lambda can also be called with the serverless webpack command (emulate production environment)

docker-compose -f docker-compose.util.yml run --rm serverless webpack invoke -f lambda_name -p event.json

##test

make test

##Exploring dynamoDB dynamoDB come with a shell accessible on localhost:8000/shell. In this shell you can execute javascript to query dynamoDb. The shell use the api of an aws-sdk AWS.DynamoDB instance (no helper) Some useful script are in the DynamoDbScript folder, to use them simply copy paste in the shell or upload them.