Overview
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Build your own bots. Discover how to leverage Node.js and natural language processing services such as Google Dialogflow and Alexa Skills Kit to build voice and text chatbots.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- How bots can change your life as a developer
- What you should know
- Using the exercise files
- Get to know the course project
- Introducing Slack and its APIs
- Setting up a Slack app and a bot user
- Obtaining and setting credentials for Slack
- Creating an endpoint for Slack events
- Setting up a proxy with ngrok
- Subscribing to events
- Handling events and sending messages
- Understanding natural language
- Setting up WIT.AI
- Training the model
- Using the WIT API
- Booking your first table via Slack
- Creating conversational flows
- Creating a session management service
- Preparing to add threaded sesssions
- Creating sessions and threads on mentions
- Handling threaded messages
- Implementing a conversation service
- Adding conversation awareness to slack
- Training special and partial utterances
- Handling greetings and good byes
- Creating an Alexa skill
- Creating an Alexa endpoint
- Trying out and tuning the Alexa skill
- Next steps
