Seed chat history

[Dobby89]

Is there a way to Seed/save/rehydrate/keep/preserve the chat history from local storage or a cookie or something?

I'm thinking of a use case where the user is browsing from page to page and the chat history has to be preserved across page reloads so the user isn't presented with a clear chat every time.

[fortesl]

use google firebase

[tabrza]

@Dobby89 - I'm currently trying to do the same with Amazon Lex. Did you manage to figure this out?

[Dobby89]

@tabrza I ended up making my own chat bot because it had too many custom requirements, so not exactly.

But I did use localstorage to persist certain state properties between page refreshes. For the conversation history I'm using a dynamo DB, but obviously any DB would suffice.

[tabrza]

Got it! Would you feel comfortable sharing the code/repo? As you probably saw, I'm trying to get this working with Amazon Lex - just trying to finish the final step of front-end interaction..

[Bonfims]

we can assume that we already have his backend / database part, so we just need to know how we can fill the chat with previous messages with things (like timestamp).

[Bonfims]

we can assume that we already have his backend / database part, so we just need to know how we can fill the chat with previous messages with things (like timestamp).

From this PR #275 we can active a history by

messages.forEach(({ who, message, messageId, date }) => {
  if(who == 'client')
      addUserMessage(message, messageId, date);
  else
      addResponseMessage(message, messageId, date);
});