How to have facebook messenger bot in local, staging and production

Question

Context

I'm working on a facebook messenger bot and have a workflow issue.

To create it i used ngrok to make a facebook test application hook on my local and it worked fine.

Now the bot is in staging for test and an other application have the webhook pointing to the stage server.

For the production server i intend to do a production application that will have webhook pointing on it.

Question

But since an application has to be attached to a page to start a conversation to it, how can i test several bots ? Do i need 3 pages (local test, staging test and production) ?

Or is there a Facebook way to it ? (test version of app is not working for now on messenger bot, known bug)

Or maybe a good practice ?

Answer 1

You are looking for Test Apps in Facebook App Development. You can find this setting on the Developer Page on the top left where you can find a drop-down button to create a Test App.

I use to create my dev and staging environment.