SMS API Concatenation Tutorial

This app demonstrates how to concatenate long text messages using the SMS API.

Prerequisites

You will need:

• A free Nexmo account

Installation

git clone https://github.com/Nexmo/sms-node-concat-tutorial.git
cd sms-node-concat-tutorial
npm install

Setup

Rename the config file:

mv .env-example .env

Fill in the values in .env as appropriate.

Running the App

Run the following command in the application directory:

npm start

The application should be running on the port you specified in .env.

Configure the webhook URL (https://example.com/webhooks/inbound-sms) in your Dashboard Settings. If you are using ngrok, this will be in the form:

https://demo.ngrok.io/webhooks/inbound-sms

Using the App

Send a long (> 160 standard GSM characters) text message to the number you specified in the TO_NUMBER setting in your .env file.

The console output of server.js should show the invididual message parts and then the complete message once all the parts have been received and reassembled.

License

The content of this project itself is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, and the underlying source code used to format and display that content is licensed under the MIT license.