@ibm-watson/customer-engagement-nodejs

🚀 Customer Engagement Demo

Prerequisites

• Sign up for an IBM Cloud account.
• Download the IBM Cloud CLI.
• Create an instance of the Tone Analyzer service and get your credentials:
  • Go to the Tone Analyzer page in the IBM Cloud Catalog.
  • Log in to your IBM Cloud account.
  • Click Create.
  • Click Show to view the service credentials.
  • Copy the apikey value.
  • Copy the url value.

Configuring the application

• In the application folder, copy the .env.example file and create a file called .env

  cp .env.example .env
  

• Open the .env file and add the service credentials that you obtained in the previous step.

  Example .env file that configures the apikey and url for a Tone Analyzer service instance hosted in the US East region:

  TONE_ANALYZER_IAM_APIKEY=X4rbi8vwZmKpXfowaS3GAsA7vdy17Qh7km5D6EzKLHL2
  TONE_ANALYZER_URL=https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/tone-analyzer/api
  

Running locally

• Install the dependencies

  npm install
  

• Run the application

  npm start
  

• View the application in a browser at localhost:3000

Deploying to IBM Cloud as a Cloud Foundry Application

• Login to IBM Cloud with the IBM Cloud CLI

  ibmcloud login
  

• Target a Cloud Foundry organization and space.

  ibmcloud target --cf
  

• Edit the manifest.yml file. Change the name field to something unique.
  For example, - name: my-app-name.

• Deploy the application

  ibmcloud app push
  

• View the application online at the app URL.
  For example: https://my-app-name.mybluemix.net

Directory structure

.
├── app.js                      // express routes
├── config                      // express configuration
│   ├── error-handler.js
│   ├── express.js
│   └── security.js
├── manifest.yml
├── package.json
├── public                      // static resources
├── server.js                   // entry point
├── test                        // unit tests
└── views                       // react components

License

This sample code is licensed under Apache 2.0.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.

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