Vonage Facebook Messenger Bot Workshop

Event: https://www.meetup.com/Junior-Developers-Singapore/events/276101622/

Sign up for a Vonage API account at https://dashboard.nexmo.com and use coupon code 21RDESJ for €10 of free credits. You’ll also need a Facebook account and Node.js for this workshop :) skip straight to it: https://dashboard.nexmo.com/coupons

1. Use Ngrok to run a test app on your local dev environment: npx ngrok http 3000
2. Create a new Vonage app here: https://dashboard.nexmo.com/applications
3. Turn on the Messages capability. Update the inbound and status URLs.
   • https://<ngrok URL>/inbound
   • https://<ngrok URL>/status
4. Add a Facebook Messenger sandbox app: https://dashboard.nexmo.com/messages/sandbox
5. Update the inbound and status webhook in the Sandbox app:
   • https://<ngrok URL>/inbound
   • https://<ngrok URL>/status
6. npm init -y
7. npm install express body-parser nedb @vonage/server-sdk@beta
8. Copy env.sample to .env and update the values.
9. Run the app with: node index.js

Helpful Links

• Vonage Voyagers: https://developer.nexmo.com/voyagers
• Vonage tutorials: https://learn.vonage.com
• Community: https://developer.nexmo.com/community/slack