This branch is home to the next major release of Botkit, which is based on a complete rewrite of the library.

This is a not a finished product! We are publishing it now as a preview so our community of developers, users and contributors can get involved. Some features are missing or not working, and some features currently included may be removed.

View the roadmap planning board for this release

GOALS:

• Keep as much of the feature set, syntax and special sauce developers know and love
• Solve persistent and hard to solve problems in previous versions of Botkit
• Use modern JavaScript language features like async/await instead of callbacks
• Full Typescript support
• Break platform adapters (and their large dependency trees) into optional packages
• Reorganize some related projects into a monorepo
• Inherit much goodness from Bot Builder
• Provide a way for bots to be extended with plugins and modular features, and for those plugins to provide a consistent interface to administrators

• Install Botkit and get started
• Botkit Core Docs
• Botkit for the Web
• Botkit for Slack
• Botkit for Webex Teams
• Botkit for Google Hangouts
• Botkit for Twilio SMS
• Botkit for Facebook Messenger

This repo contains multiple inter-linked packages containing Botkit Core, platform adapter packages, and some additional plugins and extensions. To build these locally, follow the instructions below.

Install lerna and TypeScript globally:

npm install -g typescript
npm install -g lerna

Clone the entire Botkit project from Github.

git clone git@github.com:howdyai/botkit.git

Enter the new folder, and switch to the next branch.

cd botkit
git checkout next
npm install

Use lerna to set up the local packages:

lerna bootstrap --hoist

Now, build all of the libraries:

lerna run build

To build updated versions of the class reference documents found in packages/docs, run:

lerna run build-docs