Microsoft bot framework running inside docker. This will allow you to run the emulator in the same network as your actual application.
- Checkout the project
git clone https://github.com/MartinAnt/botframework-emulator-dockerized.git ~/botframework-emulator-dockerized
- Build the image
docker build -t botbuilder-emulator ~/botframework-emulator-dockerized
- Run the container
docker run -it --network container:my_container_1 --rm -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix botbuilder-emulator
Where the my_container_1 is the container where your bot is running.
Now you can assume that your app server is running somewhere on localhost with your bot.