Botpress — The open-source bot platform

Botpress is an open-source bot creation tool written in TypeScript. It is powered by a rich set of open-source modules built by the community. We like to say that Botpress is like the WordPress of bots; anyone can create and reuse other people's modules.

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About V11

Botpress Server (> 11.5) is considered as ready for production usage.

What has changed

There are 3 major differences between Botpress X (10.x) and Botpress Server (11.x).

1. v11 is not an NPM library anymore – it is a standalone application. We distribute binaries of v11 for OSX, Windows, Linux and Docker on a daily basis.

2. v11 now supports multiple bots natively and can be run on multiple nodes – thus the naming of Botpress Server.

3. v11 is a complete backend rewrite to TypeScript. We have made significant architectural changes that are not backward-compatible.

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Learn Botpress

📖 v11 Documentation

Follow us

🖥 Website	💬 Community	🚀 Blog	🐥 Twitter

Support the project ⭐

If you feel awesome and want to support us in a small way, please consider starring and sharing the repo! This helps us get visability and allow the community to grow. 🙏

Binaries

You can download the binaries here.

What's New in Botpress Server

Botpress is on a mission to make useful bots ubiquitous by providing developers with cutting-edge tools to build & manage chatbots. We believe that in order to create great bots, significant time should be spent on user experience, not on the surrounding (and generic) features.

Quick Start

Prerequisites: Node 10.11 (you can use nvm) and Yarn.

1. Run yarn to fetch node packages.
2. Run yarn build to build the core, the UI and the modules.
3. Run yarn start to start the server.

Building issues

If you encounter errors when building modules (timeout, random errors, etc), try the following:

1. Go in each module folder and type yarn && yarn build

Build the Botpress Pro Edition

To build the Pro Edition, set the environment variable EDITION or create an empty file named pro in the root folder. This will fetch the pro submodule and build the app. By default, yarn build will target the Community Edition.

Documentation

Developer's Guide

We use Docusaurus to create the Developer's Guide.

• To start the development server, run yarn start:guide
• To generate the static files, run yarn build:guide. The generated files will appear under /docs/guide/build
• To deploy a new version of the documentation, run yarn run version <version here>

SDK Reference

We use TypeDoc to generate the SDK Reference directly from the source code.

• Run yarn build:reference to generate the documentation. THe static files will appear under /docs/reference/public.

Contributing

Thank you for your interest in Botpress. Here are some of the many ways to contribute.

• Check out our contributing guide
• Check misspelling in our docs.
• Look at our code of conduct
• Engage with us on Social Media
  • Follow us on Twitter
• Answer and ask questions on the Forum

For starters, there are some open issues with the first good issue tag which are ideal for starting to contribute. They are all relatively easy to get started with.

Contributions to Botpress will be dual-licensed under AGPLv3 and the Botpress Proprietary License. This means that all contributors need to agree to the dual-license before their contributions can be accepted.

Please follow the Conventional Commits specs when doing commits. Pull requests not respecting this commit style will be rejected.

License

Botpress is dual-licensed under AGPLv3 and the Botpress Proprietary License.

By default, any bot created with Botpress is licensed under AGPLv3, but you may change to the Botpress License from within your bot's web interface in a few clicks.

For more information about how the dual-license works and why it works that way, please see the FAQS.

Credits

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