Reference Alexa Skill Quick Start Guide

This document provides guidelines to setup and configure the Reference Alexa Skill. However, this document is not a primer for JavaScript and is intended for professionals who are familiar with the following technologies:

• Nodejs
• AWS (Amazon Web Services) Lambda Functions
• Alexa Voice Services

Overview

The Reference Alexa Skill is a flexible IoT skill, which communicates with Elastic Path’s RESTful e-commerce API, Cortex API. Through the Cortex API, the skill uses the e-commerce capabilities provided by Elastic Path Commerce and interacts with data in a RESTful manner.

Project Structure

You can find the lambda function in the lambda/main folder.

You can find the Interaction Model for the skill in the models/en-US.json file. For more information about the Interaction Model, see Alexa Developer Documentation.

Requirements

To install and customize Reference Alexa Skill, you must have the following software:

• Git
• Node.js
• A publicly available Account Linking Server
• A valid Amazon Web Services (AWS) Account
• A valid Amazon Developer Account
• A valid Elastic Path development environment. For more information, see The Starting Construction Guide