A brief introduction to Actions on Google. Concentrates more on `contexts`

1. And JavaScript
By
Hritik Vijay
Actions on Google

2. Targets
● Intuitive understanding of AoG and how it
works.
● Intuitive understanding of the backend.

3. Extracts data from text using ML

4. Book my flight for
today from Kolkata
to delhi
Book Flight
Today
Kolkata to Delhi
PROCESS

5. Intents, Entities and Context
Intents: Your intention, , Uddēśya (Book Flight)
Entities: Name, Synonyms (Kolkata, Delhi )
Context: A way to link conversations.

6. Context

7. Book my flight
from Kolkata to
delhi
Book Flight
(Undefined)
Kolkata to Delhi
PROCESS When ?
When ?
When ?Today
Today
??????
??????

8. Book my flight
from Kolkata to
delhi
Book Flight
(Undefined)
Kolkata to Delhi
PROCESS
When ?
Context: Book
Flight
When ?
Context: Book Flight
When ?Today
Today
Context: Book Flight
DONE !
DONE !
Ready to roll !

9. Javascript
● The backend server. (NodeJS)
● The Fulfillment code.

10. Show scratch.

11. In JavaScript (NodeJS) ...
app.intent(“started”, where), () => {
//move 20 steps
// turn 360 degrees
})
app.intent(“clicked”, where), () => {
// turn 360 degrees
// Say, “Tiksish”
})

12. Resources

13. Actions on Google
● Build Actions for the Google Assistant
● The Documentation

14. Javascript
● Learn JavaScript ( Freecodecamp )
● Javascript MDN reference
● Eloquent Javascript

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