ChatBot

A simple chatbot manager based on rivescript

Installation

Run :

npm install
npm run nodemon

or

npm install
npm run start

How to use

Open your browser and go to

localhost:3000/chatbot/api/v1

Logging-in

You will end up on a log-in and sign-up page.

There are already two accounts created:

• One with one bot named Steeve (id: jean, pwd: 1234)
• one with no bots (id: user2, pwd: 1234).

You can log in with one of these accounts or create a new account.

Signing-up

When you sign up, you have to log in with your credentials to use the app.

Managing bots

You can now:

• chat with any of your bots (if you have one). Press 'Enter' to send youx text.

• create bots

• modify your bots personalities

• delete your bots

You cannot delete your account via the user interface.

Logging-out

You can log out by :

• clicking the 'logout' button
• refreshing the page (which will query the server for a new page)

Routing

On the server side, the routes are organized per category in different files. For example, the endpoint for the request 'PATCH /chatbot/api/v1/bots' can be found in the file 'routes/chatbot/api/v1/bots.js' and uses the url '/'.

The server is stateless, meaning that it doesn't store any user user session. However it checks if user sending a request is registered.
To avoid having to enter your credentials each time the front-end makes a request to the server, they are cached on the client-side in paragraphs "<p>" when you log in. The cached credentials are then used each time the front-end makes a request to the server. When you log out, the cache is freed.

Data served by the server

Besides the endpoint used to get the user interface, all the other endpoints serve json or text data that can be used in any front-end application.