botbook/book/chapter-01-index.md

General Bots - The Bot Server

Welcome to the General Bots Book. This is a reference material that can be used to understand how the bot server is organized in a form of packages itself and this arrangement can be used to all custom deployed packages like .gbkb, .gbtheme or .gbapp. This book is organized in ten chapters that can be accessed throuhg this table bellow:

• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 01 - The Bot Server
• Chapter 02 - About Packages
• Chapter 03 - gbkb Reference
• Chapter 04 - gbtheme Reference
• Chapter 05 - gbdialog Reference
• Chapter 06 - gbapp Reference
• Chapter 07 - Administration
• Chapter 08 - Tooling
• Chapter 09 - Services
• Chapter 10 - Contributing
• Copyright
• Foreward
• Glossary
• Preface

The bot development stack

The Bot Factory

GeneralBots aims to delivery bots in azure in a very easy and fast fashion. Use Office tools like Word or Excel to edit your Bot - using code (JavaScript or TypeScript) just to empower custom requirements.

How To

Run the server locally

1. Install Node.js the current generation General Bot code execution platform;
2. Open a Terminal on Linux and Mac or a Command Prompt window on Windows;
3. Type npm install -g botserver and press ENTER;
4. Type gbot to run the server core.

Notes:

• nodejs.install Chocolatey Package is also available.
• The zip source code of General Bot is also available for Download;

Running unit tests

1. Enter the BotServer root folder.
2. Run tests by npm test.

Just copy the source code to your machine

1. Download the Zip file.

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