node-telegram-bot-api VS telegram-react

Node.js Telegram Bot Library: https://github.com/yagop/node-telegram-bot-api

Hi, I am developing a telegram chatbot using node-telegram-bot - https://github.com/yagop/node-telegram-bot-api) in Node.js that requires getting the previous messages or chat history of the user and bot.

Of course, it's good to write API requests yourself. It reduces the dependency on third-party libraries and allows you to control the behavior of the code more. But when there are more such methods than twenty, it already increases the size of the code. It becomes difficult to manage all the logic. This is where third-party libraries(frameworks) come to the rescue. After choosing a language, you can consider the options of different libraries from the list here, on the official Telegram page. For JavaScript I recommend using node-telegram-bot-api and telegraf. For Python you can take pyTelegramBotAPI and aiogram(highly recommended).

We checked if our text is equal to our command and responded with message. It is all main logic from this package, more sendMessage methods or params you can see here. Also we used reply_markup option in which we can use our keyboard, which will be sent with our message. And then we can check if text equal to "en" we will change our language to english and response with message. In addition, if you have a question like can you send message without getting message from user - you can do it. All that you need is to save your user to database like MongoDB with chatId field and use something like express to make CRUD methods to send your message. Here is my example of this 'bot mailer':

The Telegram bot API is pretty convenient to setup. Installing node and npm via toltec then https://github.com/yagop/node-telegram-bot-api/ makes it even easier to get a bot running in minutes. The resulting minimal app running on the reMarkable uses less than 1% CPU and 110Mb of RAM. Here the /ls example shows the last modified file by xochtil but other functions could be added to wget a PDF or ePub then add it.

Secondly, Telegram is open source and can be rebuilt from the ground up using the source code (check out the React version). So if you have fun with our project, there's no limit to how far you can extend it in the ecosystem!

Have you tried this web client?

Telegram react seems to work pretty well