ASK Toolkit Demo Skill

What You Will Need

• Amazon Developer Account
• Visual Studio Code
• The sample code on GitHub.
• An Alexa device (e.g. Amazon Echo) or the simulator

What you Get

This is a demo showing how to do code-first Alexa Skills development with the ASK Toolkit. It's meant as companion code for this blog post which is deployed as an Alexa Hosted Skill.

Setting Up the Demo

This code is meant to be used as code snippets as you develop a Hello World skill in this blog post. However you can still deply this skill as self hosted following these steps in your command line prompt:

1. Clone this project with git
2. Open a command line prompt in the project root directory and do:
   • cd source
   • npm install
   • npm run buildmodel (optional)
   • npm run build
   • cd ../lambda
   • npm test (optional)
   • cd ..
   • ask deploy

Running the Demo

Just say or type "Alexa, open Hello World"

Resources

• ASK Toolkit

License

This library is licensed under the Amazon Software License.