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Moroni Lemes
Moroni Lemes

Reputation: 21

Can I host a Facebook Chatbot on Firebase?

I created a chatbot to work with my fanpage on Facebook. This was done with a node.js base. When I do a 'firebase init', I get a /public folder and lots of other stuff. I do 'firebase deploy', but my bot is never called. Is there a way for work this out?

I have this as a reference: Hosting nodeJS app with firebase Still I got some faith this is a different case. Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1109

Answers (2)

David Airapetyan
David Airapetyan

Reputation: 5620

You should be able to Cloud Functions for Firebase to write a chat bot - I believe you might need to use a paid plan because the free tier does not allow Functions to make outbound calls.

I found a gist that appears to be an actual Facebook chat bot using functions: https://gist.github.com/mikkipastel/37fa011e3aea7ebb9941fb3dab6f1186

Upvotes: 0

Moroni Lemes
Moroni Lemes

Reputation: 21

Well, I believe I got the answer now. Firebase only supports hosting for frontend stuff. For a chatbot I'd use something like NodeJS, PHP or other backend tecnologies. Thus, Heroku is a good call.

Upvotes: 2

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