Today we are very excited to introduce Bottender 1.4, featuring:

• Routes Readability Improvement
• Customizable Session Store
• Messenger One-Time Notification (Beta)
• Messenger Message Reaction Event
• Built-In LINE Notify Support
• LINE Icon and Display Name Switch
• LINE Emoji in Text Messages
• Multi-language Documentation Website

Besides, we also bring a bunch of TypeScript improvements into this release. If you're using TypeScript with Bottender in your project, you may want to upgrade and see the changes.

According to the Notice of domain name change for certain endpoints post on LINE Developer News, the domain name of the following LINE Messaging API endpoints has been changed from api.line.me to api-data.line.me during the transition period:

We are excited to introduce Bottender 1.3 today, featuring:

• WhatsApp Support
• Slack Request Signing
• Slack Slash Command
• TypeScript Support in Create Bottender App
• More Exported TypeScript Types

We are excited to introduce Bottender 1.2 today, featuring:

• Serverless Support and Documentation: Zeit Now v2 and AWS Lambda
• Built-In Support for Intent Labeling: Bottender context now support labeling user intent and handled status.
• Packages to Integrate with NLU Services: Bots can now integrate with popular NLU services Dialogflow, LUIS, QnA Maker, and Rasa with less efforts.
• Accessing Session Store: Manipulating session data directly if you needed.
• Accessing Messaging Clients: Getting configured messaging clients out of the box to call API anytime.

All of these benefits are non-breaking and fully backward compatible. You can update it by running:

npm install bottender@latest

In Bottender v1.1, we made two remarkable improvements in:

• Multi-Channel Routing
• Better Slack APIs Support in Chat, View, Block Kit

We're very proud to announce the production-ready Bottender 1.0 today, featuring:

• Create Bottender App
• Conversation Made Easy and Simple
  • Conversation Router
  • Action Runner
• Integrating with Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
• Fundamentally Rewritten in TypeScript
• Bottender.js.org
  • Versioned Documents and Search Box
  • Preview Website on the PR
• What's Next
  • Slot Filling
  • Serverless Support

Checkout v1 changelog and migration guide for more details.

After half an year of our open source journey, we are thrilled to finally introduce our latest work - Bottender v0.15. With the release this time, not only did we make tremendous progress from our experiences previously, we also benefited quite a lot by the feedback from the whole community, which we are highly appreciative of. Thanks to your support and feedback for us to get here today.

You can now install the latest package by simply entering the command to your terminal:

$ npm i bottender@latest

$ yarn add bottender@latest

As we cannot stress enough the importance of a smooth process when it comes to developing, we try to avoid any sorts of breaking changes when updating to a new version. With that being said, developers should find it easy when making updates.

You can find the full change log on GitHub Realease Page.

We're very proud to open-source Bottender, a JavaScript framework for cross-platform bots, built on top of Messaging-APIs and lots of great tools from the JavaScript community!

To begin with, install bottender globally from the npm registry:

npm install -g bottender

And enter interactive bot creation process with:

bottender init

After answering a few questions, a new bot will be created for you.