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alexa-lambda-skill
Advanced tools
Easily create Alexa Skills to run on AWS Lambda using ES6 classes and ES7 decorators.
Try it in the online playground or create your own Alexa skill with the Yeoman generator.
import { Skill, Intent, Launch } from 'alexa-lambda-skill';
import { ask, say, card } from 'alexa-response';
import fetch from 'isomorphic-fetch';
@Skill
export default class Echo {
@Launch
launch() {
return ask('Welcome to the example Echo skill! What would you like me to repeat?');
}
@Intent('echo')
echo({ sentence }) {
return say(sentence).card({ title: 'Echo', content: sentence });
}
@Intent('AMAZON.HelpIntent')
help() {
return ask('I repeat whatever you say to me! What would you like me to repeat?');
}
@Intent('AMAZON.CancelIntent', 'AMAZON.StopIntent')
stop() {
return say('Goodbye');
}
@Intent('Credits')
credits() {
const url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cameronhunter/alexa-lambda-skill/master/package.json';
return fetch(url).then(response => response.json()).then(({ name, author }) => {
return say(`${name} was created by ${author.name}`).card({ title: name, content: `Credits: ${author.name} <${author.email}> (${author.url})`});
});
}
}
FAQs
Create Alexa Skills for AWS Lambda, easily.
The npm package alexa-lambda-skill receives a total of 21 weekly downloads. As such, alexa-lambda-skill popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that alexa-lambda-skill demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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