niko150 / token-app-js

Foundation for building a Javascript app for Token (Chat Bot / Web View)

Token SOFA App

This repo helps you build a Token app in Javascript.

The sample bot can:

• send messages
• send and request money
• create simple UI for buttons and menus
• store sessions and state for each user

TODO

• sending image messages
• creating web view UIs

Launch your own Token app in 5 minutes

Read our guide to creating a Token app.

When ready, fork this repo and deploy it to Heroku.

Then check out src/bot.js to start changing the bot logic.

Running locally with Docker

You can run the project locally with

docker-compose up

If any new depencies are added you can rebuild the project with

docker-compose build

To reset the postgres database in your dev environment you can use

docker-compose down -v

Architecture

Deploying a Token app requires a few processes to run:

• token-headless-client
  This is a client we provide (similar to the iOS or Android client) that provides a wrapper around the Token backend services. It also handles end-to-end encrypting all messages using the Signal protocol. It is written in Java and runs in the background, proxying all the requests to amd from your bot.
• redis
  We use redis pub/sub to provide a connection between the token-headless-client and your bot.
• bot.js
  This is where all your app logic lives.
• postgres
  Postgres is used to store session data so you can persist state for each user who talks to your bot (similar to cookies in a web browser).

See also

• [https://www.tokenbrowser.com]