draft alexa skill

create draft skill

• ask clone --skill-id <skill-id> more
• create skill
  • ask init
  • ask deploy # it will create dedicated skill (only works for small projects)
• Add DynamoDB permission to your Lambda function
  • connect to AWS Console
  • add attach AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess
• What is the right way to create draft/dev copy of production skill?

Running locally

• TODO: read could use ngrok + Express.js
• Based on BST simulation

AWS_REGION=us-east-1 DEBUG=ia:* npm run start:alexa

Setup env

• ask init
• choose Yes. Set up the AWS credentials. option
• set your AWS Access Key ID and AWS Secret Access Key
• Choose the vendor ID for the skills you want to manage

Deploy draft

• setup AWS credentials
• create zip file
• upload to s3 (https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-node-js/)
• set to lambda url to zip file
• define link to module + handle function more information about node.js in lambda TODO: maybe it could be implemented in pipeline script

Test

• automatic tests. it uses bespoke cli and