Prior art

So why choose this Messenger SDK? When we started in 2016, searching for Node packages was harder, and we found some other decent Messenger packages, but they needed heavy modification to suit us. So we wrote what became launch-vehicle-fbm.

You may be going through this process too so here are our notes to help you pick the best solution for your needs:

• messenger-wrapper The original Messenger library. Pretty bare bones and dated at this time.
• fbmessenger A fork of messenger-wrapper, but still pretty bare bones too compared to launch-vehicle-fbm
• botkit/hubot These general purpose bot frameworks were too general. This is best if you're looking for a basic chat bot that can be ported between different platforms.
• messenger-bot We didn't know this existed back then, but has a pretty comparable feature set.