Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris is an example of a joke skill for the Amazon Alexa service. I began the project using npm, yo, and generator-alexa-skill:

$ npm install -g yo generator-alexa-skill 
$ mkdir chuck-norris-alexa-skill 
$ cd !$ 
$ yo alexa-skill

This generates a skeleton Alexa skill, with npm scripts for running tests, packaging and deploying to AWS Lambda.

I call the ICNDB API to retrieve a joke, sprinkle in a bit of conversation using inline SSML markup and finally return it to Alexa.

To deploy the skill to AWS Lambda, I simply:

$ npm run deploy