speaking-st-cloud-alexa-nodejs-public-apis

Completed Sample Code for my presentation at the St. Cloud State University

Topics

• Creating custom Alexa Skill
• AWS Lambda Function NodeJS
• Consuming 3rd party APIs

Prerequisites

1. Setting up Alexa Skills Kit Command Line Interface (ASK CLI) https://developer.amazon.com/docs/smapi/quick-start-alexa-skills-kit-command-line-interface.html 1.1 Create Amazon Developer Account 1.2 Install Node.js and Node Package Manager (npm) 1.3 Set up AWS IAM user - will be used for deploying to AWS Lambda 1.4 Install and Initialize ASK CLI npm install -g ask-cli then ask init
2. Install VS Code (Visual Studio Code) https://code.visualstudio.com/

Helpful Commands

• Create custom skill: ask new
• Deploy: ask deploy - from skill directory

Helpful Links

• Alexa developer console: https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/console/ask
• AWS: https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home?region=us-east-1
• IEX Trading API: https://iextrading.com/developer/docs/#getting-started
• npm request-promise: https://www.npmjs.com/package/request-promise