This app is a demo of using Botkit to create a Facebook Messenger bot, using the MongoDB adapter for storage and Express to serve webpages.
The same demo for Slack bots can be found here
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Serves webpages through standard express routes
app/routes/routes.js -
Uses Monkii as MongoDB driver
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Stores users ID when a new user clicks on "Send to Messenger"
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Offers a welcome message when user clicks on "Send to Messenger", replies to Hello, and generally just repeats what you just said
- For local deployment
There are quite a number of steps to set up a Facebook bot
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Create a Facebook page. Add Page ID in .env file (rename the .env-demo file)
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Create a Facebook app. Add App ID in .env file
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Add Messenger to your App, then select the Page, to generate a Page Access token. Add Token in .env file
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install localtunnel to your computer, then use this command to make it available for webhooks
lt --subdomain yourappname --port 5000
- Add Webhooks to your app
5.1) Choose a verify token, add it to the .env file as well
5.2) Set the app webhook url to https://yourappname.localtunnel.me/webhook
5.3) Restart your server and click verify
- For Heroku deployment
Add Page ID, App ID, and token as environement variables. Change the webhook route to match your deployed domain name.
You can use MongoLab add-on to add Mongo storage, they have a free tier.
Contributions are more than welcome! In terms of style, I use standard style with camelcase and brace-style disabled.
Shared under MIT licence