Practical Bot Development : Designing and Building Bots with Node.js and Microsoft Bot Framework Explore the concept of bots and discover the motivation behind working with these new apps with messaging platforms. This book is an accessible resource teaching the basic concepts behind bot design and implementation. Each chapter builds on previous topics and where appropriate real working code is shown that implements the concepts. By just picking up a code editor you can start creating smart engaging and useful bot experiences today. Practical Bot Development will teach you how to create your own bots on platforms like Facebook Messenger and Slack incorporate extension APIs and apply AI and ML algorithms in the cloud. By the end of this book youll be equipped with the information to reach thousands of new users with the bots you create! The book is a great resource for those looking and harness the benefits of building their own bots and leveraging the platform feasibility of them Chapter 1: Introducing Bots Chapter 2: Bot User Design (UX) Chapter 3: Natural Language Understanding Chapter 4: Introducing Microsoft Bot Builder Framework Chapter 5: Dive into Bot Builder Chapter 6: Putting it all together Chapter 7: Advanced bot builder topics Chapter 8: Deploying to Channels and sending custom data Chapter 9: Custom channels Chapter 10: Making the Bot smarter Chapter 11: Communicating using Custom Graphics Chapter 12: Human Handoff Chapter 13: Logging and Bot Analytics Chapter 14: Other bot implementation platforms