Telegram Bot

This bootstrap project has been created to quick start your botocrat development. utils, middlewares and commands are examples that you can remove if you don't need.

Features

• Hot reloading with Nodemon
• Production supervising with Forever
• Logging with Winston

Installation

npm i

Development

Obtain a bot token via BotFather

Create environment variable BOT_TOKEN before start.

export BOT_TOKEN=012122123:sDKJNkjsdnajkljndkASJKDNLk

Bot token is secret and you should never store in a codebase, also you shouldn't share and paste anywhere, especially in Telegram Bot Talk group :)

Launch development server

npm start

Go to your bot and send /start command.

Start development by editing bot/index.js and have fun!

Production

Edit config/app.js for production parameters.

node run/production

You can test webhooks via ngrok to be sure that works.

After uploading to cloud;

Launch production server

npm run prod

Terminate production server

npm run stop