Build a Chatbot & Add to Your Express jS Framework

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Express.js, or simply Express, is a Node.js backend web application framework. This is a lightweight and adaptable Node.js web application framework that offers a comprehensive set of features for web and mobile applications.

In this article, I will make it very easy for you to understand how to integrate the chatbot into the Express Js project.

Pre-requisites
This tutorial makes use of Node.js. You must be familiar with engineer data JavaScript and have a basic understanding of Node.js. Before you begin, make sure Node.js is installed on your machine.
Besides that, you will require a pre-built chatbot that is ready to be deployed on your Express.js project. In this tutorial, we will use the prebuilt chatbot from Kompose.
If you do not already have a chatbot, here is a step-by-step tutorial to create your own chatbot without any coding.
Here are the 3 quick steps to add a chatbot framework Javascript.
Setup your Express.jS application
Create an express application generator
Integrate chatbot with Express.jS
Let’s discuss them in detail.

1. Setting up your Express.jS application
To begin creating the application, type the following lines into your terminal.

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$ mkdir myapp
$ cd myapp
$ npm init
$ npm install express --save
Add the following code to an app.js file in the myapp directory. Now we have a Node.js application running with the express framework thanks to this simple configuration.
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2. Create an express application generator
Express-generator, an application generator tool, is used to quickly create an application skeleton. This will help install all the dependencies and allow us to run static JS/CSS files in a more structured manner. Install the application generator as a global npm package using the below code and then launch it.