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by remixz 3712 days ago
Heh, I saw that Botkit had added Facebook support pretty much right after I released messenger-bot a couple days ago. I probably wouldn't have bothered making this library if I had seen it before.

However, I do think messenger-bot serves a slightly different purpose than Botkit might. messenger-bot is mostly just a library over the Messenger platform, with some events and convenience functions. Botkit is a bit higher level though, since it includes extras like conversation sessions, pattern matching on messages, etc.

I think both libraries have their upsides and downsides, depending on the use case. Up to the author to choose what's best for them!