No-code bot building tools are great to build an MVP or a very simple chatbot but far from ideal for businesses. Here are 4 core benefits of using custom code instead.…
Here are 3 actionable tips that can help you and your organization prepare for the inevitable future of business messaging.…
It's time for your business to invest in a multi-channel chatbot; one that can be deployed on multiple messaging channels simultaneously. Read on to learn why.…
Your company needs to create a chatbot or add messenger to its existing software. You've been chosen to bear this responsibility. The responsibility of either building an in-house solution or trusting an API provider. The right pick may save you a lot of time and improve your products, or vice…
There was one thing that always annoyed me when developing chatbots. It was webhooks. Messengers like Facebook, Viber or us (Amio) intent to push messages to your endpoint. However, the messengers can't reach your app when you specify the webhook URL as localhost. Of course, you can test your code…
Providing an error-free API for a heavily developed project is not an easy task. Likely, the first things that come to mind are tests. For a mid-sized API, you may write hundreds or even thousands of end-to-end tests. These tests significantly prolong build times. In this post, we will explain…
Front-end development has rapidly evolved in the past few years. Single page applications (SPA) have taken the prime role and lots of frameworks appeared in the space. Today, I'd like to share our journey of how we started to use Vue.js in our development stack and why we love…
Encapsulating states in objects will reduce your chatbot's complexity and will improve testability. I would like to demonstrate how to introduce more maintainability to your chatbots in case you decided to implement your chatbot as a state machine. We will work with a very small example - 3 states only.…
The server-side javascript SDK implements all common endpoints, webhooks, and an HTTP client so that you can focus more on business logic. We ourselves use Amio API on projects where messaging is necessary. We always ended up writing lots of boilerplate code for every new project that got copy pasted…
2 weeks ago we were at Google Launchpad mentoring event. One of our mentors, Martin Krček, gave us great tips about what he was missing in the web presentation and what we should improve. He advised us that as a potential non-technical customer he would like to see some use…