Telegram Bot With Nodejs And Cloudflare

Serverless Nodejs application: Telegram chatbot.

What you'll learn

Build Telegram Bot from scratch

Create a real-world Serverless project using Nodejs

Learn the basics of the Cloudflare platform (Worker, D1 SQL Database)

Deploy Telegram Bot on Cloudflare (for free)

Requirements

Basic knowledge of JavaScript

Description

Modern and beginner-friendly course that will give you a good understanding of:Chatbot DevelopmentServerless ArchitectureSQLHere you will build your own chatbot using JavaScript (Nodejs) and host it for free on Cloudflare (free tier). This is an excellent opportunity to expand your knowledge of chatbots and have one running 24/7 for anyone who wants to interact with it.We start the course by configuring the environment in Cloudflare, followed by adding commands and testing them. The steps are simple and straightforward, so you will not have to spend a lot of time trying to understand how to make things work. By the end of the course, you will have hands-on experience building a Telegram chatbot + 1 chatbot added to the arsenal of things you have built in your career.Bots are small applications that run entirely within the Telegram app. Users interact with bots through flexible interfaces that can support any kind of task or service. There are a lot of things that bots can do, and here are a few of them:Replace Entire WebsitesManage Your BusinessReceive PaymentsCreate Custom ToolsIntegrate with Services and DevicesHost GamesBuild Social NetworksMonetize Your ServicePromote Your ProjectAnything Else!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Initial setup

Lecture 2 Obtain Telegram bot token

Lecture 3 Set up Cloudflare worker

Lecture 4 Add token to worker environment

Lecture 5 Set webhook to the bot

Lecture 6 Configure initial worker logic

Lecture 7 Send first message to the bot!

Section 3: 'users' table and /start command

Lecture 8 Create database and bind it to the worker

Lecture 9 Create 'users' table

Lecture 10 Create worker 'sendMessage' method

Lecture 11 Handle /start command

Lecture 12 Test /start command

Section 4: 'reasons' table & /grateful command

Lecture 13 Create 'reasons' table

Lecture 14 Handle /grateful command

Lecture 15 Test /grateful command

Section 5: /edit command

Lecture 16 Handle /edit command

Lecture 17 Test /edit command

Section 6: /history command

Lecture 18 Handle /history command

Lecture 19 Test /history command

Section 7: /commands command & unknown command

Lecture 20 Handle /commands command

Lecture 21 Test /commands command

Lecture 22 Handle unknown command

Section 8: Input error handlers

Lecture 23 Handle input validation for /grateful command

Lecture 24 Handle input validation for /edit command

Lecture 25 Handle input validation for /history command

Section 9: The end

Lecture 26 Thank you and good luck with your future endeavors!

Beginner to advanced JavaScript developers curious about bot development and/or Cloudflare platform