Chatbot Framework

Advanced chatbot framework gives you:

• Tools for making chatbot on Facebook Messenger Platform for Node.js
• The simpliest interface for Messenger platform
• Composable Conversation Blocks system for separating concerns
• Familiar Node.js routing interface for Fast development
• Unit tests friendly bot framework

How to start

• Install the framework

  $ npm i -S botnaut
  

• Create your first chatbot

  const express = require('express');
  const { Router } = require('botnaut');
  const { createRouter, createProcessor } = require('botnaut/express');
  
  const bot = new Router();
  
  bot.use('/hello', (req, res, postBack) => {
      res.text('Hello world');
  });
  
  bot.use((req, res, postBack) => {
      res.text('What you want?', {
          hello: 'Say hello world'
      });
  });
  
  const processor = createProcessor(bot, {
      pageToken: 'pagetokenhere',
      appSecret: 'botappsecret',
      autoTyping: true
  });
  
  const app = express();
  
  app.use('/bot', createRouter(processor, 'verifyTokenHere'));
  
  mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/myapp')
      .then(() => app.listen(3000));
  

• Deploy and setup Facebook Messenger Application

  1. Create Facebook Application for Messenger platform
  2. Create page token and put it in Processor
  3. Create the webhook and use previously created verifyToken
  4. Subscribe a page to the FB Application

Requirements

• requires mongoose >= 4.0
• requires nodejs >= 6.0
• requires express >= 4.0
• requires body-parser >= 1.10