Description
I have followed the guide available at: https://learn.fonoster.com/docs/getting_started/overview and here is my feedback so far:
Create a User Account -> no problem
Install and setup the CLI -> no problem
Create a Project -> no problems but two things:
- the CLI prompts me to allow 'experiments', but the guide doesn't explain what that is (at least, not at this point). I was hesitant to allow it but I did anyway.
- a quality of life suggestion. when running
fonoster projects:use [ref], would it be possible to use the friendly name instead of the id? I come from a Firebase background and their CLI let's me write something likefirebase projects:use share-meals-dev, where "share-meals-dev" is the project name. it's not a huge issue.
Configure a Number -> no problems but the CLI asks me for an "expire" value. from the guide, it's not clear what this is. the only thing I can relate it to is the TTL for a DNS record. the questions in my head are "what unit of measurement is expire using?" and "what happens after a number expires"?
Create a Voice Application -> I followed the guide and everything was smooth. however, the last instruction is to use ngrok to expose my server. what do I do with this URL now? my instinct is to log into voip.ms and configure something there. I think that's what I would have to do with Twilio, ie point the number to an endpoint on my server. I held off on that for now and moved onto the next step in the guide.
Receive and respond to a call -> it's unclear what command I should run. the documentation says fonoster numbers:update [ID] but what does ID represent? the only thing I can think of is to put the url from ngrok from before, so I ran: fonoster numbers:update https://xxxx-xx-xx-xx-xxx.ngrok.io. I'm then prompted for an "aor link". I don't even know what AOR stands for.
at this point, I stopped following the guide.