Alexa Skill example (HelloWorld - TypeScript)

This repository is a template project of Alexa Skill for ASK CLI(v2)'s "ask new" command. We can easy to setup own Alexa custom skill with TypeScript and AWS CloudFormation.

Usage

% ask new  --template-url https://github.com/talkyjs/talkyjs-alexa-skill-template-helloworld.git

? Choose a method to host your skill's backend resources:  (Use arrow keys)
❯ Alexa-hosted skills
  Host your skill code by Alexa (free). 
  AWS with CloudFormation
  Host your skill code with AWS services and provision with AWS CloudFormation (requires AWS account) 
  AWS Lambda
  Host your skill code on AWS Lambda (requires AWS account). 
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  self-hosted and manage your own hosting 
  
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 from malicious usage.
? Would you like to continue download the skill template?  Yes
? Please type in your skill name:  talkyjs-alexa-skill-template-helloworld
? Please type in your folder name for the skill project (alphanumeric):  talkyjs-alexa-skill-template-helloworld

% tree talkyjs-alexa-skill-template-helloworld -I node_modules
.
├── LICENSE.txt
├── README.md
├── ask-resources.json
├── hooks
│   └── build.sh
├── infrastructure
│   └── lambda-deployer
├── lambda
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── package-lock.json
│   ├── package.json
│   ├── src
│   │   ├── HelpIntent
│   │   │   ├── HelpIntent.router.ts
│   │   │   ├── HelpIntent.speech.tsx
│   │   │   └── tests
│   │   │       ├── HelpIntent.router.spec.ts
│   │   │       └── HelpIntent.speech.spec.tsx
│   │   ├── LaunchRequest
│   │   │   ├── LaunchRequest.router.ts
│   │   │   ├── LaunchRequest.speech.tsx
│   │   │   └── tests
│   │   │       ├── LaunchRequest.router.spec.ts
│   │   │       └── LaunchRequest.speech.spec.tsx
│   │   ├── StopAndCancelAndNoIntent
│   │   │   ├── StopAndCancelAndNoIntent.router.ts
│   │   │   ├── StopAndCancelAndNoIntent.speech.tsx
│   │   │   └── tests
│   │   │       ├── StopAndCancelAndNoIntent.router.spec.ts
│   │   │       └── StopAndCancelAndNoIntent.speech.spec.tsx
│   │   ├── index.ts
│   │   └── tests
│   │       └── index.spec.ts
│   ├── tsconfig.json
│   └── webpack.config.ts
└── skill-package
    ├── assets
    │   ├── en-US_largeIcon.png
    │   └── en-US_smallIcon.png
    ├── interactionModels
    │   └── custom
    │       └── en-US.json
    └── skill.json

16 directories, 27 files

[Optional] Manually setup

$ rm -rf lambda/*
$ npx @talkyjs/cli new  --path lambda --database=dynamodb --controller=handler --ssml=default --no-test

Deployment

Nevermind! The project already supported the npm run build command by TypeScript with Webpack. So we just run ask deploy to build your project and deploy to AWS.