Twilio Express

Twilio routes to receive a phone call, look up a user by phone number, record a message, and send both the recording and prepopulated texts to a user's contacts.

Getting Started

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/Nmargolis/twilio-express.git

Change into the twilio-express directory and install dependencies

npm install

Create a Twilio account, get a phone number, and store your credentials in your environment

export TWACCOUNTSID='your_twilio_account_sid'
export TWAUTHTOKEN='your_twilio_autho_token'

• Also change the "From" phone number in sendText() in server.js

OPTIONAL: Install nodemon globally to automatically restart the server as you work

npm install -g nodemon

Running the app

In a terminal window, run gulp. Gulp compiles the src/ directory, watches for file changes in src, and builds to dist/

gulp

Run the server with:

gulp serve

Alternatively, run dist/server.js manually using node dist/server.js or nodemon dist/server.js if nodemon is installed.

Local (testing) & Twilio deployment

To connect this app and Twilio, the app needs to be deployed.

A quick way to do this during development is to expose the port your server is running on to make it public with ngrok.

• Follow the instructions to install ngrok.

• In the directory where it's downloaded:

ngrok http 8080

(Since the server is set to run on port 8080)

• Copy the ngrok forwarding url

• Go to your Twilio console in the browser and navigate to "Manage numbers"

• Click on the number you're using, and add the ngrok url with the route '/answer' as the webhook for receiving calls

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License