Learn
Understand Your Lambda Function
Review
You just built your first Lambda function! In this lesson you:
- Imported the SDK using
require
- Wrote handler objects with
canHandle
andhandle
methods - Built responses using the
responseBuilder
,speak()
, andgetResponse()
- Defined an error handler
- Used
skillBuilder
to register handlers and create a function for AWS Lambda to call
To learn more, check out these pages in the ASK SDK documentation:
For more examples, read the tutorial “Developing Your First Skill” in the same documentation. As you make your own skills, feel free to reference this course, but please don’t use the “Codecademy” name or “code academy” invocation.
If you’re interested in learning more from the Alexa community or you have questions, you should check out:
Instructions
The complete Lambda function code is provided here. We’ve added three additional request handlers that are required for any basic skill: HelpIntentHandler
, CancelAndStopIntentHandler
, and SessionEndedRequestHandler
.
If you’d like, you can copy it into AWS Lambda and test it!