Django-Rasa-Sockets

Rasa Chatbot using Django backend and Sockets for communication

Assuming you have a starter django project with static and templates folder configured with django and a root index view rendering index.html file from templates folder

A basic rasa core and rasa nlu made chatbot with socket.io setup is inside rasachat folder of the repo

Steps to setup socket.io

Install NodeJS from official site.
Inside root folder run command
```
npm init
```
You will be asked to enter details for the project, you can enter whatever you want. This command will create a package.json file.
Install socket.io using npm
```
npm install --save socket.io
```
Install browserify using npm globally
```
npm install -g browserify
```
Now in static/js folder, create two files, one for backend javascript code and another for frontend which will be created by browserify
```
chat.js 	-> backend written by us
bundle.js 	-> frontend compiled by browserify
```
When you have your backend javascript code ready with socket.io setup run browserify command to compile file for frontend
```
cd static/js
browserify chat.js -o bundle.js
```
In templates/index.html file load static and add script tag for browserify compiled bundle.js file
```
<script src="{% static 'js/bundle.js' %}" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
```
You can reuse the javascript code from the repo

Run the django server from root folder

python manage.py runserver

Run the rasa core server from rasachat folder

cd rasachat
python bot.py 	-> python script for rasa socket server
# or you can run using run script
python -m rasa_core.run -d models/dialogue -u models/current/nlu --port 5500 --credentials credentials.yml 		-> Using run script

interact with chatbot using sockets and django.

Usage

git clone https://github.com/Alexmhack/Django-Rasa-Sockets

Replace the rasachat folder with your rasa core chatbot and follow the ** 8th step**

Locate to 127.0.0.1:8000/ and click on button at bottom right and enter hey in the input.

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Django-Rasa-Sockets

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