🖲 alexa-skill for the mobile.cologne meetup

About the skill

• Ask the skill when the last/next meetup is. (Currently in German only.)

About the tech setup

• This project requires Node.js
• It is also recommended to install Yarn
• It uses Neutrino and Babel to 'transpile' latest ES6 JavaScript into Node 6.10 (latest lambda node version) JavaScript.
• Tests are written in Jest.
• We use ESLint as linter with the Airbnb guideline preset.

Setup

Preparation

• Create an Amazon Developer account
• Create an AWS account
• Create a Meetup API key

Build the sourcecode

• https://github.com/mobilecgn/alexa-skill.git
• make (which run yarn run build and package a ZIP file for lambda)

Upload and configure your skill

• Create an AWS lambda function
• Create an Amazon Alexa Skill
  • Define the env variable MEETUP_ACCESS_KEY with your Meetup API key.
  • Define the env variable MEETUP_GROUP_ID with your Meetup group ID, which means the string-identifier from the URL, not the internal ID.