boiler template for Alexa skill development by rewriting https://github.com/amzn/alexa-skills-kit-js/tree/master/samples/helloWorld

Alexa SDK and sample is written by ES5 and skill deployment isn't included see this.

This alexa-hello-world-skill intend to show

• write skill
• test skill
• deployment skill

with ES2015 and better developent pipeline.

npm install

You just extends AlexaSkill class and write intent handling and how Alexa respond content to user.

vi test/hello-world-skill.js

We can conduct unit test to mimic Alexa Intent. Similar test is available in AWS Console,

npm test

We write any test cased using mocha

using node-aws-lambda, zip skill code and deploy AWS lambda with following command

gulp build # build ES5 code with babel
gulp deploy

If you face with following error message, you need to go AWS console and put appropriate IAM Role information in lambda_config.js. All lambda deployment configuration is put there.

1 validation error detected: Value 'arn:aws:iam::xxxxxxxxxxxx:role/lambda_basic_execution' at 'role' failed to satisfy constraint: Member must satisfy regular expression pattern: arn:aws:iam::\d{12}:role/?[a-zA-Z_0-9+=,.@\-_/]+
Details:

After your skill zip file is uploaded, you need to associate with "Alexa Skills Kit" as Trigger.

After Lambda setup, we need to input following information on development portal

• Name
• Invocation Name
• Intent Schema　
• Sample Utterances
• Endpoint - ARN which appears at AWS Console

If you finish following step, you can test your skill on your associated devices or portal site

Alexa, ask {your invocation name}