Google Assistant – How to create a chatbot

Hi,

I have played with Google Assistant this year and built a chatbot that lets the users to manage team building locations (venues). A venue consists of these properties: number of rooms, number of guests, location and a short description.

The tools and technologies I’ve used are:

1. Node.js
2. DialogFlow – Platform used for building bots (owned by Google)
3. Firebase – Development platform used to build, monitor and host projects (owned by Google)
4. Cloud DataStore – NoSql database service (owned by Google)

If you want to create, test and deploy a chatbot you need to perform the steps below:

1. Install Node.js.
2. Install Firebase CLI – Firebase will be used to create the deploy Google cloud functions. The commands are listed below:

• npm install firebase-functions@latest firebase-admin@latest –save
• npm install -g firebase-tools
• firebase login
• firebase init – this command installs dependencies with npm. After that we can start writing our cloud functions. The code can be found here.
• firebase deploy – deploy the cloud functions as fulfillment to google cloud. You will see a functions url available:

       3. Create the intents using DialogFlow console – the intents can be found here.

The source code can be found at this github repo.