A Quick Introduction to ASK CLI

The Alexa Skills Kit Command Line Interface (ASK CLI) is a tool that helps us programmatically manage our Alexa Skills from the command line. There’s a lot of stuff we can do with the ASK CLI. We will only look at a few commands that we can use in the Skill development process for now.

The setup is done for you within this course.

Installing ASK CLI

If we have npm and Node installed on your system, we can run the following command to set up ASK CLI:

npm install -g ask-cli

ASK CLI syntax

Here’s what the structure of ASK CLI ...