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Last active February 21, 2020 21:25
Tutorial on creating a basic percent calculator Alexa skill

The Basics

An Alexa skill has two basic pieces:

  1. A skill services
  2. A skill interface

The skill service is where the logic is held. For our calculator, the skill service is responsible for handling events, running the computations and returning the answer. For this tutorial, we will create our skill service using Node.JS and AWS Lambda.

Why Node.JS? The short answer: I've been working with it on a few other project lately. I was actually torn between using Node.JS or Python.