Hey Skill Developer 👋.

If you're looking for information on building skills you should check out the Developer Documentation.

This repo contains the underlying packages used to build a skill and isn't needed directly if you're just doing skill development. But, if you need to get really close to the metal read on.

This lerna monorepo contains several packages:

• eslint-config-spruce: Shared eslint configuration enforcing best practices and code style

• eslint-plugin-spruce: Shared eslint configuration enforcing best practices and code style

• heartwood-components: Our UI component library

• react-heartwood-components: React implementation of our UI components

• spruce-next-helpers: Shared / common utilities used for the Frontend (interface) side of a skill

• spruce-node: Wrapper around API calls and utility methods used from the Backend (server) side of a skill. The underlying package that powers ctx.sb.<method> calls

• spruce-skill: The base template for a skill. Based on next.js

• spruce-skill-server: Under the hood package that powers a skill. Built on Koa

• spruce-utils: Various utilities used behind the scenes.

You'll need nodejs installed. NVM (node version manager) is recommended.

You should also install the latest sprucebot CLI:

npm i -g @sprucelabs/sprucebot-cli or yarn global add @sprucelabs/sprucebot-cli

Note: Some issues have been observed w/ certain versions of yarn where the cli will show errors when running "sprucebot". If you encounter this we recommend installing via npm instead

To work on Skills Kit you'll need to clone this repo and then:

Set your nodejs version

nvm use

Install packages

From the root of this project, install the packages:

yarn

Build packages

From the root of this project, build the packages:

yarn build

Set up your .env

cd packages/spruce-skill

cp .env.example .env

At this point you'll either need to manually edit the .env if you've previously registered the skill or use the cli to register your skill: sprucebot skill register and follow the prompts

Run your skill

yarn local

If everything went according to plan you've now got the base skill running linked to the other packages in this repo allowing you to make changes to the underlying packages used by Skills Kit!

I made a change in one of the linked packages but I don't see it updated in the browser?

Oftentimes changes made in the linked packages will require a restart of the skill. Kill and re-run yarn local

We use yarn workspaces to link all these packages together during development on Skills Kit.