Engage Digital Chatbot Framework for JavaScript

RingCentral Engage (Dimelo) bot framework for JavaScript

• API docs

Prerequisites

• Nodejs 8.10+/npm, recommend using nvm to install nodejs/npm.
• RingCentral Engage(Dimelo) account, request a demo.

Quick start

Let's start a simple RingCentral Engage chatbot server that will auto respond to any email with a auto reply.

# get the code
git clone [email protected]:ringcentral/engage-digital-chatbot-js.git
cd engage-digital-chatbot-js

# install dependecies
npm i

# start proxy server, this will make your local bot server can be accessed by RingCentral service
npm run ngrok

# will show
Forwarding                    https://xxxx.ap.ngrok.io -> localhost:6066
# Remember the https://xxxx.ap.ngrok.io, we will use it later

Follow Step by Step guide to enable sources to prepare the source and webhook. You could choose only one source.

# create env file
cp .env.sample .env
# then edit .env, set proper setting according to the tip in .env

# run local dev server
npm start

Test bot

• Send a email to your predefined email source address, then bot will auto reply with This is a auto reply by bot.
• Edit example-bots/auto-reply-all.js to set your own reply logic.

Test bot skill

• Run npm run dev1 to run bot with skills
• Check example-bots/auto-reply-all-with-skills.js and example-skills/ping-pong-skill.js

Youtube video

https://youtu.be/HDDGUFIzNxQ

Use it as CLI tool

npx ringcentral-engage-chatbot path-to-your-bot.js

Use is as a module

Check docs/direct-use.md

Real example

• https://github.com/zxdong262/ping-pong-engage-digital-chatbot: Example engage digital chat bot that will respond with "pong" for "ping" message.

Structured Message in Engage Messaging

First, follow the guide to create a Engage Messaging channel

# just run
npm run dev2

Then you can try it in Engage Messaging:

Check bot code for details.

Write a bot

docs/write-a-bot.md

Write a bot skill

docs/write-use-a-skill.md

Build and Deploy to AWS Lambda

deploy-to-lambda.md

Init a bot/bot skill project with factory CLI tool

We have built-in CLI command to init a empty project from template: https://github.com/ringcentral/engage-digital-bot-template-js.

npm i -g ringcentral-engage-chatbot
ringcentral-engage-chatbot-create my-app

Will show:

License

MIT