alexa-skill-boilerplate

An easy to use Amazon Alexa Skill Boilerplate for fast skill creation

For In-Depth Explanation on how to use this check out my blog post

Requirements

Node v8.0.0

Yarn v0.24.6

Getting Started

1. Clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/acucciniello/alexa-skill-boilerplate.git

2. Install all packages:

$ yarn

3. Start Adding Intents to your skill by editing app.js.

Testing

This uses mocha for a testing framework, chai for an assertion library, and bespoken-tools to mock Alexa behavior

$ yarn test

Deployment

This command will deploy it to lambda given you have sent up your environment for Claudia usage.

In order to have this properly set up:

1. Create a folder in your user’s home directory on your computer

$ mkdir ~/.aws && cd ~/.aws

2. Create a file called credentials

$ touch credentials

3. Edit that file to have your AWS Credentials

[claudia]
aws_access_key_id = ACCESS_KEY_ID_FROM_AWS_PAGE
aws_secret_access_key = SECRET_KEY_FROM_AWS_PAGE

4. Deploy to Lambda

$ yarn deploy

Once deployed, you can update your lambda function with:

$ yarn upload

License

MIT