• Setup
• Testing the skill
  • Test Locally
  • Test with an AWS Lambda Function

Run npm install

This will install Alexa's ASK_SDK and a framework called alexa-skill-local that can host you Skill locally.

Sign into your Alexa Console

Create a new skill and give it a name.

Under the Build tab, add a Custom intent and name it HelloWorldIntent

Add some Sample Utterances such as:

hi
hello
how are you
how is it going
what's going on

Note: Works great for debugging. Any error logs in your local terminal

On your Alexa's Console main page, right under your skill's name click on View Skill ID

On the asl-config.json file change the current skillId to your skill's ID

On the command line go to the root of the project and run:

alexa-skill-local

It will the ask you to open you browser on localhost:3001 and sign into your amazon account

Once you succesfully log in it will give you an Alexa Skill Endpoint: https://******.ngrok.io

Go to your Alexa Console, under the Build tab click on Endpoint and select HTTPS

Add the url to the Default Region and under the ssh certicate put My development endpoint is a sub-domain of a domain that has a wildcard certificate from a certificate authority., then save your endpoint.

Go to the Invocation tab on the left side and remember your Invocation Name

Go to the Test tab and turn Development on if it's not select.

On the Alexa Simulator type: open invocationName; where invocationName is the name on your Invocation tab

Then type: hi and it will say Hello World!

Compress ONLY the index.js file and the node_modules directory in a zip file.

Create a Lambda Function from scratch

• Give it a name
• Leave Node.js 8.10 as a runtime option
• For execution role
  • Create a new role from AWS policy template
  • Give the role a name
  • For Policy templates choose Simple microservice permissions
• Create Function

Under your Lambdas function Configuration tab go the Function Code window

• For Code entry type select: Upload a .zip file
• For Handler leave index.handler as the option
• Upload your zip file
• Save funtion

Scroll all the way up on your Lambda Function's page and copy the ARN on the right hand side of the page

Go to your Alexa Console and select your skill

Click on Enpoint on the left navigation tab

Select AWS Lambda ARN and paste your Lambda Function's ARN as the Default Region

Go to the Invocation tab on the left side and remember your Invocation Name

Go to the Test tab and turn Development on if it's not select.

On the Alexa Simulator type: open invocationName; where invocationName is the name on your Invocation tab

Then type: hi and it will say Hello World!