Chapter 7. Using Advanced Alexa Features for the Cooking App

In this chapter, you will continue to enhance the cooking application created in the previous chapter. First, you will add logging capability to the Node.js server, which will write logs to Microsoft Azure Blob storage. You will be able to observe the incoming requests and outgoing responses and if there are critical errors, you will be able to easily troubleshoot them by downloading the log. Then, you will be introduced to advanced topics, in order to build more of a conversational voice user interface (VUI) that will help engage the users of the cooking application. In order to build a conversational VUI, you will learn to manage application state. Also, you will build dialog models in order collect missing slot values and then check with the user what those collected slot values are. Furthermore, in this chapter, you will learn to uniquely identify the users requesting your cooking skill, in order to save the context for later...