Alexa Skill Introduction

Install and Test

• npm install
• npm run test (node testflow.js)

aws-config.json

• in order to run/test the code:
• • Copy data/aws-config-template.json and rename it aws-config.json
• • Edit the appId field

{
    "region": "us-east-1",
    "appId": "[your skill's app id]"
}

testflow.js

• provided by amazon in the alexa-cookbook repo

• invokes the intents specified in dialogs/default.txt

• • https://github.com/alexa/alexa-cookbook/tree/master/testing/TestFlow

• requests a valid alexa skill/app id (optional)

var appId = '[your skill's app id]';

Speech Assets

• not part of the lambda build/test process but are helpful when creating the skill
• speechAssets/InteractionModel.json (can be pasted into a new skill)
• speechAssets/SampleUtterances.txt

Deploy

• copy lib/index.js to the lambda code editor
• (or set up the aws CLI ...)