We'll look at Botpress's open-source project framework, including its file structure, intents, entities, abilities, and modules, in this essay. Botpress is a highly versatile and useful forum for creating chatbots, if you haven't heard about it yet. Botpress has been used by many companies to develop their own chatbot services.
Understanding its file structures will allow you to make custom configurations to serve your unique project needs. It will also allow you to create configurations that you can integrate with major messenger platforms like WhatsApp and Viber, besides several other platforms that are not covered in Botpress's default package. However, do keep in mind that you will need to have some basic programming skills and understand how open-source projects work to be able to get anywhere with Botpress. The languages used to create Botpress include NodeJS, Typescript, JavaScript and React.
For this tutorial, you will need the following:
In this tutorial, we explored the Botpress file structure, as well as modules, intents and even looked at some bits of the source code. Botpress is one of the leading open-source bot frameworks in the market today. It is well supported as evidenced by the numerous releases put forward to support the framework. There are two types of licences available for the users of Botpress, commercial licenses and the AGPL licence.
Developing an FAQ chatbot is an intuitive way for you to be able to answer the common questions that your customers ask. The chatbot you develop could be easily integrated with your apps, website and even your related social media accounts to enhance your customer interactions on these platforms and provide instant feedback to simple but useful questions that would have otherwise take a longer time to answer.
In this tutorial, you will learn how you can develop an FAQ chatbot that is integrated with Facebook messenger by using the Botpress engine that we set up in a previous tutorial. Note that it is also possible to develop your very own chatbot entirely on your local machine and then upload it to your online server.
To complete this tutorial, you'll need the following items:
It's pretty unlikely that you haven't already interacted with a chatbot at some point in time. You probably interacted with one while reaching out to Facebook's user support, while placing an order on your favourite ecommerce platform, or while engaging with your bank online. Nowadays there are chatbots for almost everything you could imagine them for.
While it sounds interesting that we can build software to take over human communications and improve the productivity of our company, it's reasonable to say that developers also do not want to spend months setting up the infrastructure for this to all work. In fact, without any assistance, building a proper chatbot would be a real headache and not at all as exciting as it may initially sound.
For a chatbot to work, you need an immense, sizeable amount of code, and you also need a a natural language unit to understand user intentions. These are the challenges that open-source chatbot frameworks have been built to resolve. They can enable developers set up the bot infrastructure in a matter of hours, rather than several months, and make it easy to launch a bot for virtually any service. Open-source bots are able to interact with backend systems using API actions, save content in databases, read and write files and carry out regular tasks such as responding to frequently asked questions.
In general, these open-source bots consist of the following core units:
So, there's a lot to love about these open-source bots. The one we will be working with in this tutorial is called Botpress.
To get Botpress set up, we will be using the following items:
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