Installation:

  1. In telegram, talk to the botfather user to make a new bot
  2. Get the bot access token from botfather for your new bot
  3. Copy .env_example as .env
  4. store the BOT_TOKEN in your new .env file

More detail is available in the workshop notes.

Running:

To run and have the server reloaded on code changes you can try yarn start:dev

However, note that reloads are not very reliable. If behaviour is strange, try completely stopping and starting your server.