Overview

Bot Builder for Node.js examples using TypeScript are organized into groups and designed to illustrate the techniques needed to build great bots. To use the samples clone our GitHub repository using Git.

Build and Run from Source

Install a recent version of NodeJS
Checkout the code and install dependencies

git clone --recurse-submodules -j8 https://github.com/alertbox/bot-examples-ts
cd bot-examples-ts

Compile and run example

cd basics-waterfall
npm install
tsc
npm start

Install the Bot Emulator
Play with the bot example

Basic Techniques

These examples show the basics techniques needed to build a great bot. All the examples written using TypeScript and can be executed from Bot Emulator.

Example	Description
hello-echo	A simple echo bot for the Microsoft Bot Framework.
basics-waterfall	Shows how to use a waterfall to prompt the user with a series of questions.
basics-menus	Shows how to create a simple menu system for a bot.

Contributing

If you are interested in fixing issues and contributing directly to the code base, please see the documentation How to Contribute, which covers the followings;

How to build and run from source
Coding guidelines
Submitting pull requests

This project has adopted the Open Source Code of Conduct of Alertbox Inc. For more information, contact alertbox.inc@gmail.com with any additional questions and comments.

Feedback

Ask a question on Stack Overflow
Request a new example on Github
Vote for popular requests
File a bug in Github Issues
Email us with other feedback

Related Projects

For a complete list, please see the Microsoft Bot Builder Examples on Github repo.