The botpress messaging server provides a standardized messaging api to communicate with the following channels :

• Messenger
• Slack
• Teams
• Telegram
• Twilio
• Smooch
• Vonage

1. Yarn v1+ (https://yarnpkg.com/)
2. Docker (https://www.docker.com/) and docker-compose (https://docs.docker.com/compose/)
3. Install recommended VSCode extensions
4. Optionally install tilt

The simplest way to run the setup locally would be with tilt.

> tilt up

Then open http://localhost:10350 to use the tilt UI. Tilt will start 4 processes:

1. messaging: messaging server (port 3100)
2. inject-build: inject script build that watches for changes
3. inject-serve: serves the inject script built by the inject-build process (port 8080)
4. webchat: serves a live version of the webchat that uses the inject-serve server (port 3543)

Note: The messaging client id inside the file packages/inject/example.html needs to be provider manually for now.

Otherwise, to start the messaging server, simply run

> yarn dev

To easily make API calls to the server, use the misc/api.rest file

To create a binary of the Messaging server

> yarn package

To run tests

> yarn test

Note: to run a specific test suite, add a colon followed by the name of the suite name to the command above (e.g. To run integration tests: yarn test:int)

To lint the codebase

> yarn eslint

To format the codebase

> yarn prettier

To reset the codebase to its initial state

> yarn reset

For all other commands, please refer to the scripts of the root package.json

For more information about the different test suites, go here.

You can read the internal documentation here