Get a skill up and running very quickly.

• Open the skills kit: https://developer.amazon.com/edw/home.html#/skills
• Add a new skill: https://developer.amazon.com/edw/home.html#/skill/create/
• Fill out the form
• Create the interaction model

To run locally:

• Install bespoken if you haven’t already

• Go to the src directory of the skill you want to run

• bst proxy lambda index.js –verbose

• Open configuration in the Alexa Skills kit

• Select HTTPS, Europe and enter the bespoken proxy

• In SSL certificate, check the option “My development endpoint is a sub-domain of a domain that has a wildcard certificate from a certificate authority”

• Set the application id in your skill, this can be found in the skill developer console

  var alexa = Alexa.handler(event, context); alexa.appId = “app id here”;

To debug locally:

• Change to the app folder
• npm install bespoken-tools
• Open Webstorm
• Open project, navigating to your skill folder
• Code -> run
• Add a new configuration
• Set JavaScript file to ‘node_modules/bespoken-tools/bin/bst-proxy.js’
• Set ‘Application Parameters’ to ‘lambda <LambdaFile.js>’
• Apply
• Close
• Click the bug to run the skill locally

To run in cloud:

• Create Lambda - https://eu-west-1.console.aws.amazon.com/lambda/home?region=eu-west-1#/create/select-blueprint
• Select blank
• Configure trigger, pick Alexa Skills kit
• Add ‘Name’ and ‘Description’
• Code entry type - Zip
• Make sure you’ve added the appId
• Cd into the folder
• zip -r ./skill.zip *
• Upload
• Pick lambda - index.handler, if index.js is the opening file
• Create custom role
• Select test
• Pick ‘Alex Start Session’
• Find amzn1.ask.account, and add the appId
• Save and test
• Take the arn
• Set it in the skill