Prerequisites

• Node.js version 10.14.1 or higher

  # determine node version
  node --version

To run the bot

• Install modules

  npm install

• Start the bot

  npm start

Testing the bot using Bot Framework Emulator

Bot Framework Emulator is a desktop application that allows bot developers to test and debug their bots on localhost or running remotely through a tunnel.

• Install the Bot Framework Emulator version 4.3.0 or greater from here

Connect to the bot using Bot Framework Emulator

• Launch Bot Framework Emulator
• File -> Open Bot
• Enter a Bot URL of http://localhost:3978/api/messages

Deploy the bot to Azure and microsoft teams

• Create and configure an azure resource.
  1. Create a bot services resource 2.Global Location
  2. Multi tenant type
  3. Within the certificates and secrets screen create a new secret and copy the unique value
  4. Within the configuration screen, put the end-point of our nodejs server /api/messages in the connection point
  5. On the channels screen add Microsoft teams.
  6. Then click on get codes to insert bot and copy the bot id.
• Inside our nodejs project write the values ​​inside .env. The values ​​we need are:
  1. MicrosoftAppType=Microsoft.BotService/botServices
  2. MicrosoftAppId= application id
  3. MicrosoftAppPassword=secret value 4.MicrosoftAppTenantId=
• Create a developer account in Microsoft 365 and create a Microsoft Teams work environment.
• Visit the Microsoft Teams developer portal and create a Microsoft Teams app. We can configure it to use it only in our company
• Inside our newly created application, we visit basic info and enter our application client id and put our azure resource id.
• We can modify our bot permissions as we wish
• Post.
• Within Microsoft teams we search the store for our newly created app.

Further reading

• Bot Framework Documentation
• Bot Basics
• Dialogs
• Gathering Input Using Prompts
• Activity processing
• Azure Bot Service Introduction
• Azure Bot Service Documentation
• Azure CLI
• Azure Portal
• Language Understanding using LUIS
• Channels and Bot Connector Service
• TypeScript
• Restify
• dotenv