Perfect! This looks great. I'm looking forward to try it. I've had a lot of trouble getting through Facebook's process of actually setting up a messenger bot even just for a hello world/test example. I think there will be some great things built in the future given the size of Facebook's user base.
It would be nice if we don't have a bunch of bot kits and instead converge on one.
I appreciate the package author putting this together but with Botkit as well... I don't know. That's frustrating dealing with multiple APIs. Botkit is adding support for Facebook too.
Heh, I saw that Botkit had added Facebook support pretty much right after I released messenger-bot a couple days ago. I probably wouldn't have bothered making this library if I had seen it before.
However, I do think messenger-bot serves a slightly different purpose than Botkit might. messenger-bot is mostly just a library over the Messenger platform, with some events and convenience functions. Botkit is a bit higher level though, since it includes extras like conversation sessions, pattern matching on messages, etc.
I think both libraries have their upsides and downsides, depending on the use case. Up to the author to choose what's best for them!
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Would be nice to have one. https://github.com/howdyai/botkit
However, I do think messenger-bot serves a slightly different purpose than Botkit might. messenger-bot is mostly just a library over the Messenger platform, with some events and convenience functions. Botkit is a bit higher level though, since it includes extras like conversation sessions, pattern matching on messages, etc.
I think both libraries have their upsides and downsides, depending on the use case. Up to the author to choose what's best for them!