PoshBot VS BotFramework-Emulator

5) You might want to have some reporting whenever your service triggers. For that you can use Slack or MS Teams, there's a PowerShell module that helps here, it's called PoshBot (you could also trigger your API through Slack). This is referred to as ChatOps.

If you really want to build this yourself, then I applaud you, however, PoshBot exists and we use it at work. https://github.com/poshbotio/PoshBot

If you use Teams or Slack, you could trigger this with Poshbot. https://github.com/poshbotio/PoshBot

GitHub - poshbotio/PoshBot: Powershell-based bot framework

One of the really interesting things about chatbots on Azure is the Bot Framework Emulator tool that lets you test a chatbot locally and get detailed information about the request the bot received and the response the bot generated.

I am using the Azure Bot Emulator to test (which is the chat client by the way!) Ref: https://github.com/Microsoft/BotFramework-Emulator

Also feel free to check out the repo if you want to try it yourself. The link is here: https://github.com/Albert-Bennett/state-management-chatbot You'll also need to download the bot framework emulator v4 to get the bot running locally.

Download the emulator from this link if you don't have it yet (or from google or any place you like) https://github.com/Microsoft/BotFramework-Emulator/releases/tag/v4.14.0

Testing the bot for yourself: To test the bot out yourself you'll need to download the code and also install the latest version of the Bot Framework Emulator (you can find it here). This will allow you to test the bot over web chat. It's a straight forward process just run the code and connect the bot. When connecting the bot, the url should look something like this: http://localhost:3978/api/messages this is the endpoint for requests to be sent to the bot.