Webpack and Typescript for Google Cloud Functions

1 · Dave Dupplaw · Sept. 20, 2017, 11 p.m.
I’ve been doing some work recently with api.ai and looking at ways of making more interesting chat bots using their fulfilment functionality. This functionality allows you to call out to services to provide the processing for a user’s specific intent. One way to deploy such a service would be on Google Cloud using their Cloud Functions. These are tiny pieces of Javascript (node) code which performs a function. They are true microservices and Google provide the entire platform (Platform as a Serv...