How to do Facebook Messenger Bot development locally?

Question

When setting webhooks, it\'s saying a Secure URL is required.

Answer 1

I created a library that tries to solve this exact problem! With fb-local-chat-bot you can easily test your bot offline. One nice thing is that you can get started on development WITHOUT even connecting with Facebook.

The library also makes testing much more simple. If you're interested, definitely check it out

https://github.com/spchuang/fb-local-chat-bot

This is how it looks. When you hook up the library, you can access the local client at an url you defined (e.g. http://localhost:5000/webhook/localChat/):