Boilerplate for Watson assistant chatbot

Boilerplate contains a light weight client and server. No setup required, just make changes in env file and your chat bot is up and running.

Prequisities

• Create a Bluemix account
• Create watson assistant workflow on bluemix

Setup

• Provision an instance of Watson Assistant on bluemix
• Create a new conversation workspace
• Install client and server dependencies
• Update the env file with your workspace ID and watson assistance api credentials.

WATSON_ASSISTANT_USERNAME=<WATSON_ASSISTANT_USERNAME>
WATSON_ASSISTANT_PASSWORD=<WATSON_ASSISTANT_PASSWORD>
WATSON_ASSISTANT_WORKSPACE_ID=<WATSON_ASSISTANT_WORKSPACE_ID>

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