This repository combines easy and professional alexa-custom-skill development.

The ease is possible through the easy-to-use parcel bundler which compiles the typescript code and watches for file changes. Also the ask-cli provides an easy interface to handle deployments.

To prevent many possible errors Typescript is used a language and for automated unit tests the bespoken-tools are installed.

Stack:

• CLI: ask-cli
• Framework: alexa-skill-kit for nodejs
• Language: Typescript
• Bundler: parcel
• Tests: bespoken tools

Prerequisites:

• ask-cli (1.7.10) (npm i -g ask-cli@1.7.10)

Getting started:

• npm i

Scripts: (npm run + script name)

• start: Watch for file changes and recompile automatically
• test: Execute unit tests
• build: Build minified and bundled code
• lint: Lint files
• validate: Validate skill manifest
• predeploy: Lint test build and validate skill (executed automatically before deploy)
• deploy: Deploy skill with ask cli

Development:

• npm start to watch for file changes and recompile the code automatically
• Execute your code: npm test

Deploy:

** Because of a bug in ask-cli 1.7.10 you cannot use npm run deploy yet **

Instead use npm run build and then ask deploy

Docs:

• ask-cli: https://developer.amazon.com/de/docs/smapi/quick-start-alexa-skills-kit-command-line-interface.html
• ask: https://ask-sdk-for-nodejs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• bespoken-tools: https://read.bespoken.io/