Using Twilio, Node.js, and Express example as a boiler-point, with dashboard adjustion and addition of leads count page. Aswell as connection to MLabs, instead of localhost Mongo DB.
Navigate to the project directory in your terminal and run:
npm installThis should install all of our project dependencies from npm into a local
node_modules folder.
This application is configured using dotenv. Begin by copying the example .env file to use in this application:
cp .env.example .envNext, open the .env at the root of the project and update it with credentials
from your Twilio account
and local configuration. You will also need to set MONGO_URL, which is how we
will connect to our database.
brew install mongodbYou should then be able to run a local server with:
mongodBy default, there will be a local database running that's not password protected.
In your .env file, set MONGO_URL to mongodb://127.0.0.1/calltracking. You
should now be all set to run the app locally!
To launch the application, you can use node . in the project's root directory.
You might also consider using nodemon for
this. It works just like the node command, but automatically restarts your
application when you change any source code files.
npm install -g nodemon
nodemon .Basic functional tests (requires local MongoDB) can be run with:
npm testTo test your application locally with a Twilio number, we recommend using ngrok. Use ngrok to expose a local port and get a publicly accessible URL you can use to accept incoming calls or texts to your Twilio numbers.
The following example would expose your local Node application running on port
3000 at http://chunky-danger-monkey.ngrok.io (note that reserved subdomains
are a paid feature of ngrok):
ngrok http -subdomain=chunky-danger-monkey 3000In your Twilio app configuration you'll need to set
http://<your-ngrok-domain>.ngrok.io/lead as the callback URL. Open
the application and then click the "App configuration" button.
More information about setting up this project, can be found here: Twilio Sample App