What

Boilerplate serverless function to enable AWS Lex voice chat bot to interact with BigCommerce store

What does this application do?

This application can be used as a fulfilment method for an Amazon Lex: https://aws.amazon.com/lex/

the AWS Lex Chat bot is able to make orders on BigCommerce by triggering this application

Contributing

Amir Hessabi George FitzGibbons - Thank you for the serverless app starter Chancellor Clark - Code Review

Running the project

To get started you will need to have a BigCommerce Store.

You will need an AWS account

You will need to have made an Lex bot already:

You will need to have +v10 node.

You will need Serverless

https://serverless.com/

In this example the serverless.yml is configured for AWS.
https://serverless.com/framework/docs/providers/aws/guide/installation/

You can easily update the yml for your desired FAAS providers

You will need to generate BigCommerce API keys, these keys need to have read permissions for products.

In the serverless.yml file update the environment with your site API Keys

environment:
  STORE_HASH: {YOUR STORE HASH}
  BC_CLIENT: {BC CLIENT ID}
  BC_TOKEN: {BC TOKEN ID}
  STRIPE_SECRET: {STRIPE SECRET KEY}

Now run to set up

bash
npm install

Now you're ready to deploy

bash
cd LexbcOrder
sls deploy

Now that you have deployed your function to the AWS Lambda Do the following steps:

Step 1 Create a Lex Chat bot

Follow the instructions on: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lex/latest/dg/gs-bp-create-bot.html

Point the lex bot fulfilment method to the function on your AWS Labmda.

Step 2 Presenting the chat box

Step 2a

You will need to Go to your Amazon Cognito

Then "Manage Identity Pools"

Then "Create new identity pool" Name the identity pool Make sure to "Enable access to unauthenticated identities" Then "Create Pool"

Copy the "Identity pool ID" and use it in the next step

Step 2b

The easiest way to test drive the chatbot UI is to deploy it using the AWS CloudFormation templates provided by this project. Once you have launched the CloudFormation stack, you will get a fully working demo site hosted in your account.

https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-lex-web-ui#getting-started

Launch the Stack and go through the creation prcess

Use the "WebAppUrl" to interacte with the bot.