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Facebook Messenger Chatbot Framework
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# Chatbot Framework
[](https://circleci.com/gh/davidmenger/botnaut/tree/master)
Advanced chatbot framework gives you:
- Tools for making chatbot on **Facebook Messenger Platform** for **Node.js**
- The simpliest interface for Messenger platform
- **Composable Conversation Blocks** system for separating concerns
- Familiar Node.js routing interface for **Fast development**
- **Unit tests** friendly bot framework
## How to start
- **Install the framework**
```bash
$ npm i -S botnaut
```
- **Create your first chatbot**
```javascript
const express = require('express');
const { Router } = require('botnaut');
const { createRouter, createProcessor } = require('botnaut/express');
const bot = new Router();
bot.use('/hello', (req, res, postBack) => {
res.text('Hello world');
});
bot.use((req, res, postBack) => {
res.text('What you want?', {
hello: 'Say hello world'
});
});
const processor = createProcessor(bot, {
pageToken: 'pagetokenhere',
appSecret: 'botappsecret',
autoTyping: true
});
const app = express();
app.use('/bot', createRouter(processor, 'verifyTokenHere'));
mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/myapp')
.then(() => app.listen(3000));
```
- **Deploy and setup Facebook Messenger Application**
1. Create Facebook Application for Messenger platform
2. Create page token and put it in Processor
3. Create the webhook and use previously created `verifyToken`
4. Subscribe a page to the FB Application
## Requirements
- requires `mongoose` >= 4.0
- requires `nodejs` >= 6.0
- requires `express` >= 4.0
- requires `body-parser` >= 1.10