Simple Alexa Skill

This the the simplest handler for an Alexa Skill using Zappa and Flask that I've been able to put together.

I was having a nightmare getting flask-ask to behave with Python3 and Zappa so came up with this to get me moving. Hopefully it's useful for someone else.

For anyone wondering, I was getting a NoneType error whenever I importing the Ask library from flask-ask.

Installing and Deploying

For full instructions please see Zappa's GitHub page. Their instructions are awesome.

For a quick example, assuming you've configured your lambda credentials: you need to setup your virtual environment, attatch yourself to it, install the required python packages and then run zappa...

  virtualenv venv
  source venv/bin/activate
  pip install -r requirements.txt
  zappa init
  zappa deploy dev

Tutorials and Links

Here's some of the tutorials I was following to get this far:

• Creating an AWS Lambda Function for a Custom Skill

• Deploy Flask-Ask Skills to AWS Lambda with Zappa