This repository demonstrates how to receive an SMS message with Blazor. It contains an asp.net server that, when run, will listen on an InboundSms route and push inbound sms's to any browser's connected to the server.
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- You'll need a Vonage API account. You can sign up here
- You'll need the latest version of the .NET Core 3.1 SDK
If you are using ngrok with IIS express I'd encourage you to check out our explainer on the subject as there are special considerations. For the purposes of this demo, since we are using the dotnet CLI we don't need to worry about this. Run the following command in a separate console.
ngrok http 5000This will build a tunnel to that port. You can now run your application by using the dotnet run command. Check back at your ngrok console it will tell you the publicly accessible URL of your app.
In this case it's pointing to http://09c1cd61e26e.ngrok.io/, by navigating to that URL you can actually see the application's frontend.
The route to our inbound sms webhook would be /api/sms/inboundsms. This means that the full route is going to be http://09c1cd61e26e.ngrok.io/api/sms/inboundsms. All that's need to do now is navigate to settings page and set the inbound messages url to our route, and set the http method to POST-JSON. Click the Save Changes button at the bottom.
In order to test, all that's needed is to send a text message to a Vonage API Number associated with your account. That can be found on the dashboard under numbers->Your Number.
When all is said and done it will look something like this.
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