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This repository combines easy and professional alexa-custom-skill development.

The ease is possible through the easy-to-use parcel bundler which compiles the typescript code and watches for file changes. Also the ask-cli provides an easy interface to handle deployments.

To prevent many possible errors Typescript is used a language and for automated unit tests the bespoken-tools are installed.

Stack:

  • CLI: ask-cli
  • Framework: alexa-skill-kit for nodejs
  • Language: Typescript
  • Bundler: parcel
  • Tests: bespoken tools

Prerequisites:

  • ask-cli (1.7.10) (npm i -g ask-cli@1.7.10)

Getting started:

  • npm i

Scripts: (npm run + script name)

  • start: Watch for file changes and recompile automatically
  • test: Execute unit tests
  • build: Build minified and bundled code
  • lint: Lint files
  • validate: Validate skill manifest
  • predeploy: Lint test build and validate skill (executed automatically before deploy)
  • deploy: Deploy skill with ask cli

Development:

  • npm start to watch for file changes and recompile the code automatically
  • Execute your code: npm test

Deploy:

** Because of a bug in ask-cli 1.7.10 you cannot use npm run deploy yet **

Instead use npm run build and then ask deploy

Docs: