assistant-service

Global Digital Library's Google assistant service

Installation

Before you start

• node version should be 10 or above (to check node -v) or use nvm.
• serverless should be installed globally (npm install -g serverless)

Install Dependencies

• cd assistant-service/
• npm install

Plugins

The application uses some serverless plugins which may affect the use of additional plugins (so you are aware). Current plugins used are:

• serverless-plugin-warmup

Run locally

To run the assistant locally on localhost:3000, use the command: npm run dev

Run tests

Test are run by using the command: npm run test

Test with Google actions and dialogflow

To be able to test the API on an assistant like Google Home, Google home mini or an assistant on your phone you first need to create a project on Google actions. Then you can integrate with Dialogflow where you set up the following:

• A fulfilment (webhook url) which must be a https-address (you can use ngrok)
• A list of intents (should correlate with the ones defined in app.js)
• A set of entities (we use read and topic)

In the folder config/intents and config/entities lies the configuration setup for intents and entities in the project which can be uploaded on Dialogflow.