twilio-sms-chatbot_9rv3's Introduction

Bi-directional SMS demo app

Features

send and receive SMS right from the web browser
threaded conversations
select from different phone numbers to use for SMS

Installation

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

Running locally

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

http://your-ngrok-domain.com/api/message

Deploying to Heroku

$ 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:

http://your-app-domain.herokuapp.com/api/message

Now you're all set. Enjoy!

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