VPS (Virtual Private Server)

Prioritize initiating a connection to your server using SSH or via your chosen cloud provider's preferred method. This initial step is essential to start following this entire tutorial.

ssh root@XX.XX.XX.XXX -pXX
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Pre-requirements

First you must download the NodeJS installation depending on your operating system but this guide focuses on Ubuntu 22. It is important to run the following commands in order for the changes to take effect

Install NVM (Node Version Manager)

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash

Set NVM environment variables

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"

Install Node.js version 20

nvm install 20

Now you have node installed on your server ready to use, the following steps will be performed inside the directory of your project you are working on.

We will proceed to install pnpm the node package manager that we use and we will also install pm2 that daemon which helps us to keep node applications running in the background.

Install pnpm and pm2

npm i pnpm@latest pm2 --global

Now we proceed to clone the builderbot-examples project and install the dependencies necessary for its operation.


Install

Clone Project

git clone https://github.com/codigoencasa/builderbot-examples-bot.git
cd builderbot-examples-bot

Install

/root/builderbot-examples-bot
pnpm install

Como es un proyecto en TypeScript necesitamos hacer el paso previo de la compilaciones y posteriormente iniciamos nuestro proyecto con pm2 ademas si quieres ver los logs puedes usar el comando pm2 logs

Build

/root/builderbot-examples-bot
pnpm run build
pm2 start ./dist/app.js --name bot
pm2 logs

Terminal

🛜  HTTP Server ON
[POST]: http://localhost:3008/v1/messages
[GET]: http://localhost:3008/

âš¡âš¡ ACTION REQUIRED âš¡âš¡
You must scan the QR Code
Remember that the QR code updates every minute
Need help: https://link.codigoencasa.com/DISCORD

As we can see the project is running and ready to scan the QR code, now only remains to link your whatsapp for that step visit http://your-ip-public:3008.

Link your whatsapp application