Installing_CLI_tools.md

Installing CLI tools

The Bot Framework now has CLI tools to help quickly create bots and bot-specific resources such as LUIS and QnA Maker. Additionally, it's now possible for users to deploy bots from their CLI using these tools.

	Tool	Description
	Chatdown	Prototype mock conversations in markdown and convert the markdown to transcripts you can load and view in the new V4 Bot Framework Emulator
	MSBot	Create and manage connected services in your bot configuration file
	LUDown	Build LUIS language understanding models using markdown files
	LUIS	Create and manage your LUIS.ai applications
	QnAMaker	Create and manage QnAMaker.ai Knowledge Bases.
	Dispatch	Build language models allowing you to dispatch between disparate components (such as QnA, LUIS and custom code)
	LUISGen	Auto generate backing C#/Typescript classes for your LUIS intents and entities.

Install CLI tools:

Pre-requisites:

• Node.js version 8.5 or higher
• dotnetcore 2.0 for luisgen and botdispatch

Windows users can type the following into their CLI to install the tools:

npm i -g chatdown msbot ludown luis-apis qnamaker botdispatch luisgen

For Linux users, to install NPM modules globally you need to use sudo:

sudo npm i -g chatdown msbot ludown luis-apis qnamaker botdispatch luisgen