Push custom notifications to all your bot users with Microsoft Bot Framework from a webpage. Enter a message and push the message to all users. This scenario is ideal for event bots, where the organiser or comms team may want to send announcements to all the participants. I have not included any authentication - but in production you will want to add some form of auth so that the web app is protected from the public.
Note: The bot and the web app are hosted separately, which is ideal in production.
Run npm install in both bot and dashboard folders to build dependencies.
Populate the .env files for the bot and dashboard:
- If you're running locally, you can leave the MICROSOFT_APP_ID and MICROSOFT_APP_PASSWORD fields blank for now.
- Get an Azure Subscription. You can sign up for a free trial here.
- Spin up an Azure Cosmos db instance here, for Document db. You will need to populate the .env file with the host url, primary key, database id and collection id.
Run npm start in the bot and dashboard. Start typing custom messages in your web app, and see these get sent to your bot through the emulator.
- Generate a bot at http://dev.botframework.com to get the MICROSOFT_APP_ID and MICROSOFT_APP_PASSWORD. Populate the .env variables with these values.
- Generate 2 separate Azure App Services to host the bot and the web app separately.
- Use continuous deployment with a source control of your choice (Github/VSTS) to push your code to the 2 App Services.