wow finally the fucker works for reasons far too complex to explain

.gitignore

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 # production
 /build
+/functions
 
 # misc
 .DS_Store

netlify.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[build]
+  functions = "functions/"
+  publish = "build/"
+  command = "npm run build"

package.json

@@ -2,24 +2,34 @@
   "name": "bot_test",
   "version": "0.1.0",
   "private": true,
-  "proxy": "http://localhost:3001",
+  "proxy": "http://localhost:9000",
   "dependencies": {
     "@testing-library/jest-dom": "^4.2.4",
     "@testing-library/react": "^9.3.2",
     "@testing-library/user-event": "^7.1.2",
+    "http-proxy-middleware": "^0.20.0",
+    "netlify-lambda": "^1.6.3",
+    "node-fetch": "^2.6.0",
     "react": "^16.12.0",
     "react-dom": "^16.12.0",
     "react-entypo": "^1.3.0",
     "react-scripts": "3.3.0",
-    "serialize-javascript": "^2.1.2"
+    "request": "^2.79.0",
+    "serialize-javascript": "^2.1.2",
+    "webpack": "^4.41.5"
   },
   "scripts": {
-    "start": "react-scripts start",
-    "build": "react-scripts build",
+    "start": "npm-run-all --parallel start:app start:server",
+    "start:app": "react-scripts start",
+    "build:app": "react-scripts build",
+    "build": "run-p build:**",
     "test": "react-scripts test",
     "eject": "react-scripts eject",
     "server": "nodemon server",
-    "dev": "run-p server start"
+    "dev": "run-p server start",
+    "start:server": "netlify-lambda serve --config ./webpack.functions.js ./src/lambda",
+    "build:lambda": "netlify-lambda build --config ./webpack.functions.js src/lambda",
+    "serve:lambda": "netlify-lambda serve --config ./webpack.functions.js  src"
   },
   "eslintConfig": {
     "extends": "react-app"
@@ -38,7 +48,7 @@
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "body-parser": "^1.19.0",
-    "dialogflow": "^1.0.0",
+    "dialogflow": "^1.1.1",
     "express": "^4.17.1",
     "express-pino-logger": "^4.0.0",
     "node-env-run": "^3.0.2",

server.js

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+const proxy = require('http-proxy-middleware')
+const Bundler = require('parcel-bundler')
+const express = require('express')
+
+const bundler = new Bundler('src/site/index.html', {
+  cache: false
+})
+
+const app = express()
+
+app.use(
+  '/.netlify/functions',
+  proxy({
+    target: 'http://localhost:9000',
+    pathRewrite: {
+        '^/\.netlify/functions':''
+    }
+  })
+)
+
+app.use(bundler.middleware())
+
+app.listen(Number(process.env.PORT || 1234))

src/ReactBotUI.js

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class ReactBotUI extends Component {
     // append user text
     this.appendMessage(text, true);
 
-    const response = await fetch('/api/botRequest', {
+    const response = await fetch(".netlify/functions/botRequest", {
       method: 'POST',
       headers: {
         'Content-Type': 'application/json',

src/lambda/botRequest.js

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+import fetch from 'node-fetch';
+import dialogflow from 'dialogflow';
+const uuid = require('uuid');
+let truthbotPrivateKey = JSON.parse(process.env.truthbot_private_key).private_key;
+let truthbotClientEmail = process.env.truthbot_client_email;
+let truthbotProjectId = process.env.truthbot_project_id;
+
+exports.handler = async (event) => {
+    // "event" has information about the path, body, headers, etc. of the request
+  console.log('event', event)
+  const response = await botRequest("hello");
+  // The "callback" ends the execution of the function and returns a response back to the caller
+  return {
+    statusCode: 200,
+    body: response
+  }
+}
+
+
+const sessionId = uuid.v4();
+
+// Create a new session
+const sessionClient = new dialogflow.SessionsClient({
+    projectId: truthbotProjectId,
+    credentials: {
+      private_key: truthbotPrivateKey,
+      client_email: truthbotClientEmail
+    }
+});
+
+const sessionPath = sessionClient.sessionPath(truthbotProjectId, sessionId);
+console.log('sessionpath is', sessionClient);
+
+
+async function botRequest(userString) {
+    // The text query request.
+    // Send request and log result
+  // The text query request.
+  const intentRequest = {
+    session: sessionPath,
+    queryInput: {
+      text: {
+        text: userString,
+        languageCode: 'en-US',
+      },
+    },
+  };
+
+  const intentResponse = await sessionClient.detectIntent(intentRequest);
+  const intentResult = intentResponse[0].queryResult;
+  return intentResult.fulfillmentText;
+}

webpack.functions.js

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+module.exports = {
+  externals: { dialogflow: 'dialogflow' }
+};