Deploy Telegram Bot to Heroku For Free | Telegram Bot Development | Part 5

Telegram bot development using node.js and Telegraf API.

Step by step guide:

ishan0445 / telegraf-telegram-bot-deploy

Telegram bot deploy steps for Telegraf API using micro-bot

Steps to host your Telegram bot

Heroku:

• Create a Telegram bot with Telegraf API.
• Create account on Heroku.
• Install Heroku CLI.
• Install and setup git.
• Add micro-bot to the project

  npm install micro-bot --save

• Remove Telegraf dependency from package.json.
• set the start command in package.json

  ...
  "main": "index.js"
  "scripts": {
  "start": "micro-bot"
  }
  ...

• Make cahnges in the code
  • Change the telegraf import to

    const { Composer } = require('micro-bot')

  • Create bot from Composer:

    const bot = new Composer

  • Finally remove bot.launch() line instead use:

    module.exports = bot

• Init a new git repo:

  git init

• make .gitignore file with following content:

  node_modules
  

• Login to Heroku:

  heroku login

• Create a Heroku app:

  heroku create

• Update Heroku config

  heroku config:set --app YourAppId BOT_TOKEN='YOUR BOT

  …

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What you will learn:

• Intro to Heroku, git and micro-bot npm package
• Deploying to Heroku
• Testing Bot after deployment
• And a lot more...

Requirements:

• Please watch previous parts
• Basic Programming (everything will be taught from basics).
• Telegram Account.

Example Bot:
Search for @covid_19_india_bot on telegram or click here
https://t.me/covid_19_india_bot

Comments

[Stephen Strange]

Worked? ?