Build a habit of shipping by sharing your daily, incremental progress
See how other makers are growing their business
Members are invited by existing members
Receive outside perspective when you need it
Connect with others through weekly video hangouts
Get access to our members-only perks and discounts
👋 Join WIP to participate
Run it only on localhost, kill other instances. Console log stuff.
Are you using ngrok for webhooks?
Nope, I'm using polling with Node. github.com/yagop/node-telegra…
Are you using a service that loops over or just a cronjob/schedule task every X seconds?
It's a websocket connection to the Telegram server and keeps the process alive, so the bot never quits running.
Is this something specific to Node? I am using PHP, in this example it just goes recursively with
sleep
method: github.com/kolar/telegram-pol…No idea. Maybe don't use PHP :D
Create two different bots with Bot Father, the first (A) runs on localhost and the second (B) runs on my server, they scan and handle the same telegram activity. I push a new version of A with the B token on the remote instance when it's necessary.
polling, i follow the same process with github.com/yagop/node-telegra…