A Node module to simplify development of Alexa apps using Node.js
npm install alexa-app --saveThe alexa-app-server project is a fully working example of using alexa-app to build an Alexa application using Node.js.
alexa-app does the dirty work of interpretting the JSON request from Amazon and building the JSON response. It provides convenience methods to more easily build the response, handle session objects, and add cards. It also makes it easy to run multiple endpoints (apps) on one Node.js server instance.
var alexa = require('alexa-app');
var app = new alexa.app('sample');
app.intent('number',function(request,response) {
var number = request.slot('number');
response.say("You asked for the number "+number);
});
express.post('/sample',app.request);app.launch(function(request,response) {
response.say("Hello World");
response.card("Hello World","This is an example card");
});Define the handler for multiple intents using multiple calls to intent().
app.intent('buy', function(request,response) {
response.say("You bought a "+request.slot("item"));
});
app.intent('sell', function(request,response) {
response.say("You sold your items!");
});app.sessionEnded(function(request,response) {
logout( request.userId );
// No response necessary
});By default the session is closed after each request.
app.intent('guess', function(request,response) {
response.say("Guess again!");
response.shouldEndSession(false);
});app.launch(function(request,response) {
response.session('number',42);
response.say("Would you like to know the number?");
response.shouldEndSession(false);
});
app.intent('tellme', function(request,response) {
response.say("The number is "+request.session('number'));
});app.launch(function(request,response,http_req,http_res) {
log( http_req.ip );
});var server = express();
var alexa = require('alexa-app');
var app1 = new alexa.app('hello');
app1.launch(function(request,response) {
response.say("Hello");
});
var app2 = new alexa.app('world');
app2.launch(function(request,response) {
response.say("World");
});
// Prefix all apps with /alexa/ => ex: /alexa/hello
alexa.bootstrap(server,"/alexa/");var app = new alexa.app('hello','myEndpointName');