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Hello,
Code from this URL - https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/developing-alexa-skills-locally-with-nodejs-implementing-persistence-in-an-alexa-skill/

and code in this git repo (alexa-cakebaker) are not 100% same.

So it means if some new person/coder joins, he does not get full code!! :)

I am Just writing this.
This is not really important.

By the way this is great template to get started.

Thanks for all effort and hard work.

I am getting error
[c:\wamp\www\alexa\alexa-app-server\examples\apps\alexa-cakebaker\index.js]: ReferenceErr
or: localCredentials is not defined

How to find error in alexa-app environment ?

to get the userId from the request parameter of the index.js functions your need to use the following or it generates an undefined value:

var userId = request['data']['session']['user']['userId'];

Unless you can tell me a better way (the example code from Big Nerd uses your code, but doing their example it throws a validation error due to the above issue).

Hello, I have noticed that the last progress is often not saved.
How to reproduce it:

• Go through the first steps (e. g. until 3 or 4)
• Say "save cake"
• Look in the database
• The progress was either not even saved or is outdated (e. g. at currentStep 1)

Interesting:

• Resuming the skill / recipe immediately (load cake) suddenly makes the the right state in the database visible

I don't get it why this happens. I need a reliable way to save strings for a survey-skill.

Thanks,
Marwin