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Building Bots with Node.js

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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

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

Taught by

Daniel Khan

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