serverless-typescript-facebook-bot

A example of a facebook Bot written in typescript ready to work inside serverless architectures.

Deploy

To deploy with example is used serverless: a common utility to deploy serverless architectures. In particular, this example contains a configuration for AWS world.

Note: You might want to look take a look at the Facebook Messenger Platform quickstart guide or the Facebook Messenger Platform in-depth documentation.

Variables

• FB_ACCESS_TOKEN: the public token of your facebook's page
• FB_VERIFY_TOKEN: the private token used to authenticate your application
• VERSION: the version of your API

Steps

• Change the value of the environment variables declarated inside activate.sh
• Activate the environment that contains the variables launching the command source activate.sh
• Install the nodeJS modules npm install
• Run the deploy serverless deploy
• Fill the public endpoint of your facebook webHook
• Activate your application with a post call at https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/me/subscribed_apps?access_token=${FB_ACCESS_TOKEN}