README.md

Harry's Habits - the habit tracking chatbot

Harry's Habits is a Facebook Messenger chatbot to help you form new healthy habits (part of my MSc thesis).

Build

• npm install then npm start
• mv .env.example .example then change values

Deployment

• Setup Facebook, Database, Push to Cloud first
• npm run deploy to deploy

Facebook Messenger

• Create page and get page id
• Generate access token
• Whitelist your domain
• Add a Get Started Button

Database

• Database providers for storing user data:
  • Heroku PostgreSQL with postgres addon (10k rows for free) (recommended)
  • Airtable (2k rows for free)

Push to Cloud

• git clone https://github.com/harrymt/harryshabits.git then deploy to PaaS, e.g. git push heroku master
• PaaS providers for deployment:
  • Heroku (recommended)
  • Google App Engine
  • Now.sh

Attribution

• Audio from AudioBlocks
• Logo from the Noun Project by Yu luck
• Gifs from Gif Sound.
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  • https://gifsound.com/?gif=i.imgur.com/1Asrg.gif&v=M11SvDtPBhA&s=45
  • https://gifsound.com/?gif=i.imgur.com/SXoCvIw.gif&v=Jmd4OLzhQw0&s=33