This is a serverless application built with Node.js, Serverless Framework AWS Lambda.

• Visual Studio Code
• ASK CLI (Alexa Skills Kit Command Line Interface)
• AWS CLI (Amazon Web Services Command Line Interface)
• Node.js (required for ASK CLI)
• Serverless Framework (npm install -g serverless)
• AWS Vault

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/mawaqit/alexa.git

2. Change to the project directory:

cd alexa/lambda

3. Install the dependencies:

npm install

1. Start an AWS Vault session with the mawaqit-external profile:

aws-vault exec mawaqit-external

2. Change to the project directory:

cd alexa/lambda

3. Deploy your functions to AWS Lambda:

serverless deploy -s ${stage} -f indexHandler

Different stages we can use to deploy

• dev
• prod

• lambda/handlers.js: Contains the function handlers for your serverless functions.
• lambda/serverless.yml: Serverless configuration file that defines your functions, events, and resources.
• lambda/package.json: Node.js package file that lists your project dependencies.
• /interactionModels : Contains Interaction Models of different locales
• lambda/aplDocuments : Contains APL Documents
• lambda/prompts : Contains prompts for different locales

1. Open Visual Studio Code.

2. Go to the Extensions view by clicking on the Extensions icon in the Activity Bar on the side of the window or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+X.

3. In the search bar, type "Alexa Skills Kit" and press Enter.

4. Click "Install" on the extension named "Alexa Skills Kit" by Amazon.

5. Open the VS Code terminal by pressing Ctrl + \ (backtick).

6. Type the following command to configure the ASK CLI:

   ask configure

7. Follow the prompts to log in with your Amazon developer account and set up the CLI. Make sure to select or create a default profile.

8. In the VS Code terminal, type the following command:

   ask configure --profile MAWAQIT

9. Follow the prompts to log in with your Amazon developer account and set up the "MAWAQIT" profile.

10. To ensure that the "MAWAQIT" profile has been created successfully, run the following command:

ask configure list-profiles

1. Make sure the interaction model which you wish to update is available in /interactionModels directory.

2. Make changes in your required Locale for example in /interactionModels/en-US.json

3. Navigate to Interaction Models directory using CLI.

cd interactionModels

4. To deploy your changes to your Dev Skill to a particular locale for example en-US

ask smapi set-interaction-model --skill-id amzn1.ask.skill.81a30fbf-496f-4aa4-a60b-9e35fb513506 --stage development --locale ${locale} --interaction-model "file:${locale}.json" -p ${profile} --debug 

NOTE:

• Replace ${locale} with locale name. For Example: en-US or en-IN .
• Replace ${profile} with profile name. For example: MAWAQIT