Typedgram Bot - Openshift template

Template repository to mount a Telegram Bot on Openshift servers written in Typescript

Openshift deployment

Create an account and download rhc gem. Make sure you have Ruby installed.

# Gem install, try with sudo if needed
$ gem install rhc

# Setup with your accout and public key,
$ rhc setup

Once you are ready, use this template as seed:

• APP_NAME: Name for your app.
• NAMESPACE: You need a namespace in OpenShift
  • This will create your app on https://APP_NAME-NAMESPACE.rhcloud.com
  • You can create a namespace with rhc domain create NAMESPACE
• TELEGRAM_TOKEN: Your token.

Also, this will create a new directory called APP_NAME on the current directory.

rhc app create APP_NAME nodejs-0.10 \
  -e TELEGRAM_TOKEN=TELEGRAM_TOKEN \
  -n NAMESPACE \
  --from-code=https://github.com/mrpatiwi/typedgram-bot-openshift-template.git

You can set or change any time the Telegram Token with:

rhc set-env TELEGRAM_TOKEN=TELEGRAM_TOKEN -a APP_NAME -n NAMESPACE

Let's set the deployment remote repository to OpenShift and name it openshift:

$ cd APP_NAME
$ git config --get remote.origin.url | xargs git remote add openshift

Now to deploy an update it is easy as:

$ git push openshift master

Finally, let's set the origin remote to your personal repository:

$ git remote set-url origin https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git
$ git push origin master

Where USERNAME is your git username and REPOSITORY is your bot's home repository.

Local Development

To develop your bot locally, you need a secure connection to your local host. One way to achieve this is using a ngrok to create a tunnel to your computer.

Example

Once installed, create a tunnel to your app.

$ ngrok 8080

# Tunnel Status                 online
# Version                       1.7/1.7
# Forwarding                    http://SUBDOMAIN.ngrok.com -> 127.0.0.1:8080
# Forwarding                    https://SUBDOMAIN.ngrok.com -> 127.0.0.1:8080
# Web Interface                 127.0.0.1:4040
# # Conn                        0
# Avg Conn Time                 0.00ms

Then we set our development environment variables.

$ export TELEGRAM_TOKEN="TOKEN"
$ export PORT="8080"
$ export LOCAL_IP="127.0.0.1"
$ export LOCAL_URL="SUBDOMAIN.ngrok.com"

Now you should be able to start your bot with npm start.