Hello there! Welcome to the Alexa Skills Development Workshop

The workshop is organized in a serie of numbered lessons with:

• /tasks
• /solutions

You'll start with each task, with the task source code and a README file explaining what you need to do.

In case you are not sure or need help you can also check the solutions folder, with a solution for each task.

Prerequisites

• Node.js (> v8)
• Register for an AWS Account
• Register for an Amazon Developer Account
• Install and Setup ASK CLI

Useful links

Tools

Alexa

• Alexa Developer Console
• Voice Design Guide

ASK CLI (Alexa Skill Kit Command Line Interface)

• Quick Intro and Setup

AWS CLI

• http://jmespath.org/examples.html
• https://claudiajs.com/tutorials/aws-cli-tricks.html

AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model)

• Github Repo
• Parameter docs
• SAM Command line tools
• Quick intro

AWS APIs

Lambda and API Gateway integrations

• Lambda Context object
• Proxy integration format