botserver
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General Bots is a package based chat bot server focused in convention
over configuration and code-less approaches, which brings software packages
and application server concepts to help parallel bot development.
Everyone can create bots by just copying and pasting some files and using their favorite tools like Excel (or any text editor) or Photoshop (or any image editor).
Bot Server accelerates the process of developing a bot. It provisions all code base, resources and deployment to the cloud, and gives you templates you can choose from whenever you need a new bot. The server has a database and service backend allowing you to further modify your bot package directly by downloading a zip file, editing and uploading it back to the server (deploying process) with no code. The Bot Server also provides a framework to develop bot packages in a more advanced fashion writing custom code in editors like Visual Studio Code, Atom or Brackets.
GeneralBots aims to delivery bots in azure in a very easy and fast fashion. Use Office tools like Word or Excel to edit your Bot - using code (JavaScript or TypeScript) just to empower custom requirements.
npm install -g botserver and press ENTER;gbot to run the server core.Notes:
git clone <your-forked-repository-url>/BotServer.git ;npm install on Command Prompt or PowerShell on the General Bots source-code folder;npm install folled by npm run build (To build default Bot UI);npm start.Note:
The subjects.json file contains all information related to the subject tree and can be used to build the menu carrousel as well give a set of words to be used as subject catcher in the conversation. A hierarchy can be specified.
A theme is composed of some CSS files and images. That set of files can change everything in the General Bots UI. Use them extensively before going to change the UI application itself (HTML & JS).
Embraces all packages types (content, logic & conversation) into a pluggable bot directory.
The artificial intelligence extensions in form of pluggable apps. Dialogs, Services and all model related to data. A set of interactions, use cases, integrations in form of conversationals dialogs. The .gbapp adds the General Bots base library (botlib) for building Node.js TypeScript Apps packages.
Four components builds up a General Bots App:
All code contained in a dialog builds the flow to custom conversations in built-in and additional packages .
Models builds the foundation of data relationships in form of entities.
Services are a façade for bot back-end logic and other custom processing.
Tests try to automate code execution validation before crashing in production.
An expression of an artificial inteligence entity. A .gbot file defines all bots dependencies related to services and other resources.
A theme of a bot at a given time. CSS files & images that can compose all UI presentation and using it a branding can be done.
A set of subjects that bot knows.
Shared code that can be used across bot apps.
General Bots can be controlled by the same chat window people talk to, so here is a list of admin commands related to deploying .gb* files.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| deployPackage | Deploy a KB package. Usage deployPackage [package-name]. Then, you need to run rebuildIndex. |
| undeployPackage | Undeploy a KB. Usage undeployPackage [package-name]. |
| redeployPackage | Undeploy and then deploys the KB. Usage redeployPackage [package-name]. Then, you need to run rebuildIndex. |
| rebuildIndex | Rebuild Azure Search indexes, must be run after deployPackage or redeployPackage. |
Powered by Microsoft BOT Framework and Azure.
General Bots Code Name is Guaribas, the name of a city in Brasil, state of Piaui. Roberto Mangabeira Unger: "No one should have to do work that can be done by a machine".
General Bots Copyright (c) Pragmatismo.io. All rights reserved. Licensed under the AGPL-3.0.
According to our dual licensing model, this program can be used either under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3, or under a proprietary license.
The texts of the GNU Affero General Public License with an additional permission and of our proprietary license can be found at and in the LICENSE file you have received along with this program.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
"General Bots" is a registered trademark of Pragmatismo.io. The licensing of the program under the AGPLv3 does not imply a trademark license. Therefore any rights, title and interest in our trademarks remain entirely with us.
Version 0.0.18
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General Bot Community Edition open-core server.
The npm package botserver receives a total of 5 weekly downloads. As such, botserver popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that botserver 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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