christopher-ramirez/alexa-helpers

Simple library to manage alexa responses and some helpers to improve data transformation.

Alexa Helpers

Simple library to manage alexa responses and some helpers to improve data transformation.

Responses can include variables escaping them into curly brackets {variable}.

Example Usage

To manage alexa's responses.

var messageRenderer = require('alexa-helpers').messageRenderer
  , Reply = require('alexa-helpers').reply;
...
var responses = {
  "Generic": {
    "Say": { say: "I want {a} {drink}" },
    "Tell": { tell: "I want {a} {drink}" },
    "Ask": { 
      ask: "Do you want a {drink}?",
      reprompt: "Please answer if you want a {drink}.",
      card: {
        type: 'Simple',
        title: 'Blah',
        content: "I want {a} {drink}"
      }
    }
  }
};

var data = {
  drink: 'water'
};

var variables = {
  a: function a(data) {
    return Promise.resolve('a');
  },
  drink: function drink(data) {
    return Promise.resolve(data.drink);
  }
};

var sut = messageRenderer(responses, variables);
sut('Generic.Ask', data).then(function(msg) {
  var reply = new Reply(msg);
  // Send the message/text to alexa
  reply.write(response);
})