BotFlow

JavaScript (nodejs) library that accepts Twilio Studio alike JSON configuration files and provides the same functionality on an independent back-end service.

Features

• Data gathering over a bot-conversation & sending to remotes;
• Sending message to client & awaiting for response to continue the flow;
• Message templating and variable injection using handlebars;
• Action Triggers split-based-on, send-message, make-http-request (see usecases at /examples/*);
• Condition triggers regex, equal_to, not_equal_to, matches_any_of (see usecases at /examples/json/*);
• Populates remote response data into scope;

How to?

• Install yarn globally with npm i -g yarn;

• Ideally you'd like to build it with yarn build and import from /bin;

  • Run example survey: yarn test:survey;
  • Run example appointment: yarn test:appointment;

• You can also npm i botflow then use following example:

const BotFlow = require('botflow');
const Configuration = require('./JSON_CONFIG_FILE_PATH.json');

const instance = new BotFlow(
  {
    From: 'SENDER_ID/NAME/REFERENCE',
    To: 'RECEIVER_ID/NAME/REFERENCE'
  }, 
  Configuration
);

(async () => {
  
  const reply = await instance.query('start');

  console.log(reply);

  console.log(instance);
 
})();

Libraries used:

• node-fetch https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-fetch
• node-cache https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-cache
• handlebars https://handlebarsjs.com/

TODOs:

• Create npmjs package;
• Write a documentation;
• Improvements and more customization;

Notes:

• Project is heavily inspired by Twilio Studio and Chatflows as on https://www.twilio.com/console/studio.
• This is a a hobby project & early version therefore slight changes will/might be applied anytime.
• You can always make a pull request in case of a good contribution.

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