Building Bots with Node.js

Introduction

• How bots can change your life as a developer
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files
• Get to know the course project

1. Creating a Slack Bot

• 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

2. Understanding Natural Language

• Understanding natural language
• Setting up WIT.AI
• Training the model
• Using the WIT API
• Booking your first table via Slack

3. Creating Complex Conversations

• 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

4. Creating a Voice Bot with Alexa

• Creating an Alexa skill
• Creating an Alexa endpoint
• Trying out and tuning the Alexa skill

Conclusion

• Next steps