# jovotech/jovo-framework

🔈 The React for Voice and Chat: Build Apps for Alexa, Messenger, Instagram, the Web, and more

Repository: https://github.com/jovotech/jovo-framework
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jovo-framework
Homepage: https://www.jovo.tech
Language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: amazon-alexa, alexa, google-assistant, voice-assistant, voice, voice-applications, jovo-framework, facebook-messenger, chatbots, conversational-ai
Archived: true
Last push: 2025-04-24T08:37:14+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 18, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3384, "days_push": 496, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1672, forks 301 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:20.170621+00:00)

## What it is
Jovo is an open-source TypeScript/JavaScript framework for building cross-platform voice and chat applications from a single codebase, targeting Alexa, Google Assistant, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and the web. It uses a declarative, component-based API with handlers and output templates that translate to platform-specific formats. Note: the project was shut down and archived in 2024/2025; packages remain on npm but repositories are read-only.

## Use cases
- build an Alexa skill and Google Assistant action from one codebase
- create a chatbot for Facebook Messenger and Instagram
- embed a voice assistant in a web or mobile app
- develop conversational apps with reusable components and output templates
- prototype voice apps locally with a CLI and dev server

## When to choose
- you need one codebase across multiple voice/chat platforms
- you want a React-like component model for conversations
- you're maintaining an existing Jovo project or forking it

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - the project is archived and unmaintained
- you need LLM/agent-based conversational AI rather than intent-based voice apps
- you require official support or an active community

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-framework, chatbot, nlp, middleware, routing
- domain: chatbots, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: voice-apps, alexa, google-assistant, facebook-messenger, conversational-ai, typescript, archived, multimodal, natural-language-processing, voice, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- jovotech/jovo-framework (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:20.170621+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:42:37.403616+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jovotech/jovo-framework (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:20.170621+00:00, sha 4af779dec3fd)
  - homepage: https://www.jovo.tech (fetched 2026-08-29T11:16:03.063835+00:00, sha 07ac862d52b4)
  - site_page: https://www.jovo.tech/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T11:16:03.073046+00:00, sha 4fe5527fdf44)
  - site_page: https://www.jovo.tech/about (fetched 2026-08-29T11:16:03.074906+00:00, sha 135619969209)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.