Learn how to automate your workflow using Twilio's REST API and Twilio SMS. This example app is a vacation rental site, where the host can confirm a reservation via SMS.
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You will need to configure Twilio to send requests to your application when SMS are received.
You will need to provision at least one Twilio number with sms capabilities so the application's users can make property reservations. You can buy a number right here. Once you have a number you need to configure your number to work with your application. Open the number management page and open a number's configuration by clicking on it.
Remember that the number where you change the SMS webhook must be the same one you set on the
TwilioPhoneNumbersetting.To start using
ngrokin our project you'll have execute to the following line in the terminal.$ ngrok http 3000Bear in mind that our endpoint is:
http://<your-ngrok-subdomain>.ngrok.io/reservations/handle -
This sample application stores data in a MongoDB database using Mongoose. You can download and run MongoDB yourself (OS X, Linux, Windows).
On OS X, maybe the easiest way to get MongoDB running locally is to install via Homebrew.
$ brew install mongodbYou should then be able to run a local server with:
$ mongod -
Clone this repository and
cdinto its directory:$ git clone git@github.com:TwilioDevEd/airtng-node.git $ cd airtng-node -
Install dependencies:
$ npm install -
Edit the sample configuration file
.envto match your configuration.Once you have edited the
.envfile, if you are using a UNIX operating system, just use the source command to load the variables into your environment:
$ source .env
- Run the application.
$ npm start
- Check it out at http://localhost:3000
That's it!
To let our Twilio Phone number use the callback endpoint we exposed, our development server will need to be publicly accessible. We recommend using ngrok to solve this problem.
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