nationalparks-conversation

Chatbots and Watson: Let’s talk about national parks: course source code

The chatbot uses Watson Conversation, Weather Company Data, React, Nodejs, and Bluemix to create a chatbot about National Parks.

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A glimpse

Prequisities

1. Clone this repo
2. Create a Bluemix account

Setup

Conversation

• Provision an instance of Watson Conversation on Bluemix
• Create a new conversation workspace by importing ./resources/conversation_workspace.json into your Watson Conversation workspaces,
• Install client and server dependencies
• Create .env files in the project root with the following contents

APP_ID=parks-conversation
PORT=3004
LOG_LEVEL=debug
SESSION_SECRET=test

WATSON_CONVERSATION_API_ROOT=https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/conversation/api
WATSON_CONVERSATION_VERSION=v1
WATSON_CONVERSATION_VERSION_DATE=2016-07-11
WATSON_CONVERSATION_USERNAME=<USERNAME>
WATSON_CONVERSATION_PASSWORD=<PASSWORD>
WATSON_CONVERSATION_WORKSPACE_ID=<WORKSPACE>

Server

Install server dependencies

npm install

Client

Install client dependencies

cd client
npm install

Build / Run (Development)

• Start the server npm start
• Start the client cd client && npm start
• Navigate to http://localhost:3000

Build / Run (Production)

cd client
npm run build
cd ..
npm start

Navigate to http://localhost:3000

Deploy to Bluemix

Prequisites:

• Install CloudFoundry Tools

Deploy

Follow the first 3 steps in the "Build / Run (Production)" section above, then run.

cf push USER_ID-nationalparks

Navigate to https://USER_ID-nationalparks.mybluemix.net