How to create seperate files for each set of Dialogs in Azure bot framework - Node.js

Question

I am having 5 different categories of dialogs. I wanted to keep each of them in seperate files like - Dialog1.js, Dialog2.js, and so on.

Could some one help me on the same?

Answer 1

There are many ways to achieve this. Here we are creating dialogs in some different files, but registering the dialogs with bot by importing them to index.js and calling bot.dialog("<dialog name>", <dialog>). You can build on this to have many dialogs registered with bot.

This keeps the dialog code short and separate.

dialog1.js

const dialog1 = [function(session){
    session.send("this is dialog 1");
}];

module.exports = {
    dialog: dialog1
}

dialog2.js

const dialog2 = [function(session){
    session.send("this is dialog 2");
}];

module.exports = {
    dialog: dialog2
}

index.js

const dialog1 = require("./dialog1.js").dialog;
const dialog2 = require("./dialog2.js").dialog;

....
bot.dialog("dialog1", dialog1);
bot.dialog("dialog2", dialog2);