/messenger-fullstack-example

An example of using Full Stack with Facebook messenger

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Facebook Messenger Full Stack Demo

A Facebook messenger bot that uses Full Stack to test responses and interactions with users.

Local Environment Setup

Account Setup

  1. Create an Optimizely Full Stack project
  2. Access a Facebook Developer account, and create a new app for Messenger
  3. Create a Verify Token for authentication with Facebook (select messages & messaging_postbacks for your Subscription fields)

Developer Setup

  1. Clone the repo
  2. Run npm install
  3. Create a .env file touch .env
  4. Enter your Optimizely Full Stack project in the .env file as PROJECT_ID={your project id}
  5. Enter your Facebook API token in the .env file as FACEBOOK_TOKEN={your token}
  6. Enter your verify token in the .env file as VERIFY_TOKEN={your token}
  7. To start the app after setup, npm start

Note: You will also need to have a publicly accessible url to receive POSTs from Facebook for authentication and to receive incoming messages. One recommended approach to do this locally is to use Ngrok or deploy the sample app to Heroku