- send and receive SMS right from the web browser
- threaded conversations
- select from different phone numbers to use for SMS
This demo is built with NodeJS and MongoDB. Requirements:
- npm
- node
- mongo
- ngrok (for running locally and testing)
To get started, clone this into your local repo with:
$ git clone [email protected]:twiliosa/demo-app-bidirectional-sms-nodejs.git
Once you have it cloned locally, edit the config.js file (config/config.js) and set the following variables to your Twilio information (which can be found in your Twilio account portal).
process.env.TWILIO_ASID = '{{YOUR ACCOUNT SID}}';
process.env.TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN = '{{YOUR AUTH TOKEN}}';
process.env.TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBERS = ['{{TWILIO PHONE NUMBER}}','{{TWILIO PHONE NUMBER}}'];
Once you set the values in config.js, run the following:
$ npm install
Start mongo and you can begin your node server.
$ mongod
$ node server.js
$ ngrok 3000
Make sure to configure your Twilio phone numbers (the ones set in config.js). Set their SMS URLs to
$ heroku create
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "push to heroku"
$ git push heroku master
This will give you a fresh version of this app deployed to Heroku. When it is successful, you will see the following:
$ http://your-app-domain.herokuapp.com deployed to Heroku
You'll need that URL to do the last bit of configuration on Twilio:
Go to the Twilio number you specified in config.yml and set it's SMS URL to:
Now you're all set. Enjoy!
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