🖲 alexa-skill for the mobile.cologne meetup

About the skill

Ask the skill when the last/next meetup is. (Currently in German only.)

About the tech setup

This project requires Node.js
It is also recommended to install Yarn
It uses Neutrino and Babel to 'transpile' latest ES6 JavaScript into Node 6.10 (latest lambda node version) JavaScript.
Tests are written in Jest.
We use ESLint as linter with the Airbnb guideline preset.

Setup

Preparation

Create an Amazon Developer account
Create an AWS account
Create a Meetup API key

Build the sourcecode

https://github.com/mobilecgn/alexa-skill.git
make (which run yarn run build and package a ZIP file for lambda)

Upload and configure your skill

Create an AWS lambda function
Create an Amazon Alexa Skill
- Define the env variable MEETUP_ACCESS_KEY with your Meetup API key.
- Define the env variable MEETUP_GROUP_ID with your Meetup group ID, which means the string-identifier from the URL, not the internal ID.