Open chat bots: easily create an open chat bot via npm

Developers
1

Super excited to announce the release of version 1.1.0-beta.5 of the create-openchat-bot CLI toolkit :partying_face:

Instantly create openchat bots from your terminal.

Prerequisites:

You’ll need to have dfx cli and rust installed first before using the templates

Installation:

Install the package globally

npm install -g create-openchat-bot

Usage:

npx create-openchat-bot

This will:

  1. Ask you which type of bot you want to create (offchain or onchain) - the next version will have the specific languages i.e Motoko, Typescript or Rust.
  2. Ask for your bot’s name
  3. Create a new directory with the template
  4. Set up the necessary configuration
  5. Run the appropriate setup script
  6. Display the bot URL (for a canister bot) or the command for starting your bot server (for your off-chain bot)

Registering your bot:

Now you can easily register a bot on oc mainnet (no need to run open chat locally) using the steps here

Full link to the package can be found here

Side note: The package is currently in beta mode for testing purposes and only supports the Rust SDK. The Motoko and TypeScript SDKs are in the pipeline.

Looking forward to your feedback!

2

Not a huge fan of npm , never the less I do appreciate the work that has gone into this. Tagging @hpeebles as he has the best feedback.

3

Thank you @ZackDS

But I’d like to know why you’re skeptical on npm

4

Is there any recommendation where to host it?

5

Kindly clarify, hosting the bot you’ve made using the package?

6

I am excited to announce the release of a new stable version 1.1.1 of the create-openchat-bot CLI toolkit :partying_face:

This new update fixes a few issues:

  1. We added new BotDefinition fields: default_subscriptions and data_encoding, which were causing an error when creating an on-chain bot.
  2. Reduced package size: The package is now much smaller (4.3 kB) and only includes the essential files:
    • README.md
    • bin/create-openchat-bot.js
    • package.json

Easily create openchat bots using the toolkit :backhand_index_pointing_right: here