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alexa-skill-local

v1.3.0

Published

Develop Alexa skills locally

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38

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alexa-skill-local

alexa-skill-local provides you local development environment for your Alexa Skill. It starts ngrok and mock lambda server on the same port. All the traffic on this port is tunneled through ngrok. You have to login with Amazon to update your skill endpoint with the ngrok url. Mock lambda server calls your lambda function the each time it gets request from Alexa.

Requirements

  • Node and npm
  • Alexa Skill (Lambda Code) written in Node.js

Installation

Use Node.js v8.x.x to run.

You can install alexa-skill-local globally (recommended) or in your project directory (in this case you many want to run it from npm scripts in package.json).

$ npm install -g alexa-skill-local

Usage

Run following command. When prompted open http://localhost:3001 in your browser. Login with Amazon to grant alexa-skill-local an access to update your skill's endpoint.

$ alexa-skill-local [-f|--file <lambda_function_entry_file>] [-p|--port <server_and_ngrok_port>] [-c|--config <json_config_file>] [--inspect-brk <port>]

--file : Optional. When run without --file argument alexa-skill-local searches for main entry in package.json. If not found, it searches for index.js in the root directory.

--port: Optional. Specify port value for mock lambda server and ngrok. Default value is 3000.

--config: Optional. If not specified, it searches for asl-config.json in the root directory. You need to have config file, otherwise skill endpoint update won't work. Config file has to be of following format (If you are not sure of the "stage", in most cases it is "development"):

{
    "skillId" : "your_skill_id_here",
    "stage" : "stage_of_the_skill"
}

--inspect-brk: Optional. Specify this flag if you want to attach debugger to mock lambda server process. If port is not specified debugger will listen to is 9229.

Then you can use your favorite editor to attach debugger to this process.
For example in VSCode you will need following configuration in your launch.json file:

{
    "type": "node",
    "request": "attach",
    "name": "alexa-skill-local",
    "processId": "${command:PickProcess}",
    "restart": true,
    "protocol": "inspector",
    "port": 9229
}

License

MIT

Contact

email : [email protected]

Links

npm : https://www.npmjs.com/package/alexa-skill-local
Privacy Policy : https://sites.google.com/view/alexa-skill-local