Facebook chatbot written in Node.js for Penn's services, such as dining, laundry, etc.
To install and get started, run
npm install
npm start
The chatbot is currently deployed on Dokku, a self-hosted Heroku-like PaaS that allows for easy development deploys. Ideally, this should be behind a Continuous Integration server so only builds that pass can be deployed.
To set up deploys from your individual developer machine, there are a few simple steps both on the development machine and the Dokku server.
- Create an SSH key on the local developer's machine.
- Add the SSH public key (
~/.ssh/id_rsa.pubusually) to the Dokku server withdokku ssh-keys:add <name> <path_to_key>. - Within the git repo on the local development machine, add the Dokku repo as a
git remote:
git remote add dokku dokku@apps.pennlabs.org:chatbot
NOTE: Deploy access to the Dokku server should be extremely limited and only provided to trusted users. Should a developer's SSH key be compromised or shit hits the fan, access should be revoked.
Once you've set all that up, deploying is super simple:
git push dokku master
Note that Dokku works similarly to Heroku with buildpacks, so all requirements
have to be package.json, running the app happens with a Procfile, etc.