Chatbot-frontend

Frontend implementation of FYP: SCSE Chatbot

Installation

Node.js

Note: There might be some dependencies problem if other version of node.js is used, hence, it is recommended to build node.js version 4.6.0 as follow (until the dependencies problems are solved).

wget -c https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.6.0/node-v4.6.0.tar.gz #This is to download the source code.
tar -xzf node-v4.6.0.tar.gz
cd node-v4.6.0
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

Chatbot-frontend

1. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/dbakti7/chatbot-frontend.git

2. Install the dependencies npm install

Running the node.js server

Go to the following file for configuration.

src/constants.js

If you are on Linux environment, run the following commands.

node_modules/.bin/webpack -p
node_modules/.bin/babel-node --presets react,es2015 src/server.js

If you are on Windows environment, open Windows PowerShell and use the following commands.

NODE_ENV=production node_modules/.bin/webpack -p
NODE_ENV=production node_modules/.bin/babel-node --presets react,es2015 src/server.js

If IS_PRODUCTION = false, navigate to

localhost:{port}

otherwise, navigate to either one of

localhost
https://your_domain_name

Sample Requests for Testing

/df-query endpoint

Used to query dialogflow directly.

POST localhost:{port}/df-query
{
	"query": "scholraship ailve",
	"sessionID": "test"
}

/preprocess endpoint

Used to perform spellchecking on client-side.

POST localhost:{port}/preprocess
{
	"word": "intrnational schloarship"
}