Gabby

Gabby provides a way to interface with several chatbot providers through "adapters". Adapters interface with different services such as api.ai and Watson Conversation.

Why

Many services provide a user interface for creating your chatbot but when you start to bring more developers into the picture it starts to fall apart. Gabby provides a way to have your chatbot be code/config driven as well as platform agnostic. Having your chatbot as code/config also allows you to version it using source control which makes upgrades and rollbacks a breeze.

Examples

More complete/complex examples

Without JSX config:

import Gabby from 'gabby';
import WatsonAdapter from 'gabby-adapter-watson';

const routes = {
  children: [
    {
      name: 'hello',
      when: '#greeting',
      handler: Hello,
      children: [],
    },
    {
      name: 'goodbye',
      when: '#farewell',
      handler: Goodbye,
      children: [],
    }
  ],
};

const gabby = new Gabby({
  adapter: new WatsonAdapter({
    name: 'my sweet chatbot',
    username: 'xxx',
    password: 'xxx',
    workspaceId: 'xxx',
    logger: console,
  }),
  routes,
  intents: [
    {
      name: 'greeting',
      phrases: ['hello', 'hi', 'what\'s up'],
    },
    {
      name: 'farewell',
      phrases: ['goodbye', 'bye', 'see you tomorrow'],
    },
  ],
  logger: console
});

gabby.applyChanges()
  .then(() => {
    console.log('all ready to go!');
    const { msg } = await gabby.sendMessage('hello');
    // send msg to user
  });

With JSX config:

import Gabby, {
  parseReactRoutes,
  Root,
  Route
} from 'gabby';
import WatsonAdapter from 'gabby-adapter-watson';

const routes = (
  <Root>
    <Route name="hello" when="#greeting" component={Hello} />
    <Route name="farewell" when="#farewell" component={Goodbye} />
  </Root>
);

const gabby = new Gabby({
  adapter: new WatsonAdapter({
    name: 'my sweet chatbot',
    username: 'xxx',
    password: 'xxx',
    workspaceId: 'xxx',
    logger: console,
  }),
  routes,
  intents: [
    {
      name: 'greeting',
      phrases: ['hello', 'hi', 'what\'s up'],
    },
    {
      name: 'farewell',
      phrases: ['goodbye', 'bye', 'see you tomorrow'],
    },
  ],
  logger: console
});

gabby.applyChanges()
  .then(() => {
    console.log('all ready to go!');
    const { msg } = await gabby.sendMessage('hello');
    // send msg to user
  });

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