Jovo Docs

Getting Started

Learn how to build your first project with Jovo v4, the framework that lets you create powerful conversational apps that work across voice and chat platforms like Alexa, Google Assistant, Facebook Messenger, the web, and more.

Installation

Learn how to install Jovo, the open source framework for voice and chat apps.

Project Structure

Learn how you can organize your Jovo project.

Migration from v3

Learn how to migrate Jovo v3 projects to Jovo v4.

Components

Learn more about Jovo Components, which are self-contained and reusable elements in a Jovo app.

Handlers

Learn more about Jovo Handlers, which are methods inside a Jovo Component that are responsible for handling a request and returning output.

Handle Decorators

Learn more about Jovo Handle decorators, which determine which types of user input a handler should respond to.

Output

Learn more about how to return structured output that works across platforms like Alexa, Google Assistant, Facebook Messenger, the web, and more.

Models

Learn more about how to use Jovo Model files to maintain language models that work across platforms and NLU services.

Routing

Learn more about the different elements of routing: How the Jovo app decides which component and handler should respond to a request.

Properties

Learn more about Jovo properties, which are reserved variables that part of the Jovo object.

App Configuration

Learn how to configure a Jovo app and how to add plugins, components, and staging.

Project (CLI) Configuration

Learn more about the Jovo project config (jovo.project.js) that is used by the Jovo CLI to build and deploy your project to various platforms.

Output Configuration

There are certain configurations that determine how an output template is translated into a native platform response.

Debugger Configuration

Learn how you can customize the Jovo Debugger.

Model Schema

Learn more about all the elements that are part of the Jovo Model.

CLI

Learn more about the Jovo CLI.

Debugger

The Jovo Debugger allows you to test and debug your Jovo app by displaying the most important information about each interaction in one place.

Webhook

Develop and test your voice apps and chatbots locally using Jovo.

Staging

Learn how staging provides the ability to build, deploy, and run Jovo apps in different environments, including local development.

Deployment

Learn how you can deploy your Jovo app to a server or cloud provider.

Logging

Learn about logging features that help you debug your Jovo apps.

Unit Testing

Learn more about unit testing conversational apps with Jovo.

Error Handling

Learn more about different ways of error handling when building Jovo apps and plugins.

Contributing

Learn more about setting up your Jovo development environment and contributing to the open source framework by submitting pull requests on GitHub.

Output Templates

Learn more about the structure of Jovo output templates, which offer the ability to create cross-platform output for voice and chat experiences.

Output Classes

Learn more about Jovo Output classes, which offer a way to return structured output templates.

i18n

Learn how to internationalize Jovo apps like Alexa Skills, Google Actions, and chatbots.

Output Configuration

There are certain configurations that determine how an output template is translated into a native platform response.

Output Helpers

Learn more about helper methods that make it easier to create Jovo output templates that work across voice and chat platforms.

new

Learn more about the Jovo CLI new command.

run

Learn more about the Jovo CLI run command.

build

Learn more about the Jovo CLI build command.

deploy

Learn more about the Jovo CLI deploy command.

get

Learn more about the Jovo CLI get command.

update

Learn more about the Jovo CLI update command.

User

Learn more about the Jovo User property.

Device

Lear more about the Jovo Device class that allows you to retrieve device-specific features and capabilities.

Entities

Learn how to access entities and configure dynamic entities using Jovo.

RIDR Lifecycle

Learn more about one of the key concepts of Jovo: The RIDR (Request - Interpretation - Dialogue & Logic - Response) Lifecycle.

Middlewares

Learn how you can extend Jovo by hooking into different types of middlewares.

Input

Learn more about the Jovo Input property, which includes structured user input.

Data

Learn more about different types of data that can be used in a Jovo app. For example, some data might be only relevant for a specific interaction, a component, or session.

State Stack

The Jovo State Stack remembers components that are relevant for the current user session.

Response

Learn more about the Jovo response object, which is the generated native JSON response which gets returned to voice and chat platforms.

Dependency Injection

Learn how you can add custom providers to your Jovo app using dependency injection.

Platforms

Learn more about Jovo Platform integrations are responsible for communicating with platforms like Alexa, Google Assistant, the web, and more.

Clients

Clients are the user facing interfaces that handle the recording of user input and communicate with platform integrations in a Jovo app.

Databases

Jovo offers a variety of integrations that allow you to store elements like user data, session data, and an interaction history in a database.

ASR

Learn more about automatic speech recognition (ASR) services that can be integrated with Jovo.

NLU

Learn more about natural language understanding (NLU) services that can be integrated with Jovo.

TTS

Learn more about text to speech (TTS) services that can be integrated with Jovo.

CMS

Learn more about content management system (CMS) services that can be integrated with Jovo.

Server

Jovo offers a variety of server integrations that allow you to host your apps on your own server or cloud platforms like AWS.

Plugins

Learn how you can build your own plugins to customize and extend the Jovo Framework.

Hooks

Learn how to extend Jovo apps using Hooks.

CLI Plugins

Learn how to build your own Jovo CLI plugin.