Get Telegram Chat ID

This is a simple bot that returns your Telegram Chat ID when you send a message to the bot.

It is also a simple proof of concept to deploy serverless Telegram Bot to Vercel's Now.

Local development

For local development polling mechaninsm is used to get Telegram messages.

1. Create .env file with your TELEGRAM_TOKEN. (TIP: Make sure to create a development bot, so you don't override production)

2. Install dependencies with npm i

3. Run with npm start or npm run dev for watching (nodemon is required, if you don't have it installed simple npm i -g nodemon)

4. Talk to your bot

Production deployment (with Vercel)

Once you have a Vercel account and Vercel CLI installed, simple deploy with now command. (Make sure to have setted up TELEGRAM_TOKEN as Environment Variable).

During build phase, Vercel will run npm run now-build, which will execute build.js and configure Telegram Bot using webhook.