Visit Gent Chatbot

This is a chatbot for Visit-Gent. It is implemented with Microsoft Bot Framework in Typescript.

Prerequisites

• Nodejs
• NPM

Setup

• Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/lab9k/visit-gent-botframework.git

• Install dependencies

cd ./visit-gent-botframework
npm install

• Run development server

npm run watch

• Build and run in production mode

npm run build
node ./lib/index.js

interaction

You can interact with the bot in different ways.

• In development mode

Use the Microsoft Botframework Emulator

• In production mode

Deploy the bot on azure with this guide

When deployed, you can enable different channels to communicate trough. (Facebook, Webchat, etc...)