akulkarni7a/twilio-sms-chatbot

Bi-directional SMS demo app

Features

• send and receive SMS right from the web browser
• threaded conversations
• select from different phone numbers to use for SMS

Installation

This demo is built with NodeJS and MongoDB. Requirements:

• npm
• node
• mongo
• ngrok (for running locally and testing)

To get started, clone this into your local repo with:

$ git clone git@bitbucket.org:twiliosa/demo-app-bidirectional-sms-nodejs.git

Once you have it cloned locally, edit the config.js file (config/config.js) and set the following variables to your Twilio information (which can be found in your Twilio account portal).

process.env.TWILIO_ASID = '{{YOUR ACCOUNT SID}}';
process.env.TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN = '{{YOUR AUTH TOKEN}}';
process.env.TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBERS = ['{{TWILIO PHONE NUMBER}}','{{TWILIO PHONE NUMBER}}'];

Once you set the values in config.js, run the following:

$ npm install

Running locally

Start mongo and you can begin your node server.

$ mongod
$ node server.js
$ ngrok 3000

Make sure to configure your Twilio phone numbers (the ones set in config.js). Set their SMS URLs to

• http://your-ngrok-domain.com/api/message

Deploying to Heroku

$ heroku create
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "push to heroku"
$ git push heroku master

This will give you a fresh version of this app deployed to Heroku. When it is successful, you will see the following:

$ http://your-app-domain.herokuapp.com deployed to Heroku

You'll need that URL to do the last bit of configuration on Twilio:

Go to the Twilio number you specified in config.yml and set it's SMS URL to:

• http://your-app-domain.herokuapp.com/api/message

Now you're all set. Enjoy!

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