party-bot

Text a number to learn where the party's at. Uses AWS Lambda to field the calls and reply.

Setting Up Lambda

NOTE: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is not what I'd call beginner-friendly. But dive in if you can. To use the code in this repo, you'll need to create a new AWS user in the "Identity and Access Management" part of AWS (which is called IAM). That user, which I've called lambda-master, needs IAM full access, Lambda full access and API Gateway Administrator privileges. More about getting up to speed is nicely written up by the folks who made claudia.js

Load in Claudia and the other dependencies:

npm init
npm install claudia --save-dev
npm install claudia-api-builder --save
npm install twilio mongodb --save

Make sure a lambda.js file is in the directory tree. Here's a base example.

Make sure to have an index.js file in the directory tree. Here's a base example.

To establish the function the first time:

AWS_PROFILE=lambda-master ./node_modules/.bin/claudia create --region us-east-1 --api-module lambda

Take note of the URL in the configuration json that's displayed when all is done. Everything else (sans URL) is saved as claudia.json. (Or don't, because it tells you on every update.)

Updating the code

To update the code all the billions of other times:

AWS_PROFILE=lambda-master ./node_modules/.bin/claudia update

Secret & Environment Variables

To store API keys and the like, set them as "stage variables," such as MONGO_URL in the AWS API Gateway.

• API Gateway >
• [name of API] >
• stages >
• latest >
• stage variables >
• Add stage variable

They then get passed to the function by lambda, and can be used like this:

var mongoKey = request.env.MONGO_URL;