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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!

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Moroni Lemes
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  • What codebase are you working out of? – Jon Church May 19 '17 at 23:15
  • Well, I start my code with this: 'use strict'; const express = require('express'); const bodyParser = require('body-parser'); const request = require('request'); const firebase = require('firebase'); I believe that is an appropriate answer to you inquiry, right? – Moroni Lemes May 22 '17 at 13:23

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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.

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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

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