Facebook Messenger bot not sending messages in order

Question

I\'m playing around with building a simple Facebook Messenger chatbot and I\'m having trouble sending messages in sequence.

In the example above, it should

Answer 1

You can try putting them inside a setTimeout function so each one goes after a certain period of time.

So replace this:

sendTextMessage(user, "Hello!");
sendTextMessage(user, "1");
sendTextMessage(user, "2");
sendTextMessage(user, "3");

With this:

sendTextMessage(user, "Hello!");              

// 1 second

setTimeout(function() {
    sendTextMessage(user, "1");
}, 1000)

// 2 seconds

setTimeout(function() {
    sendTextMessage(user, "2");
}, 2000)

// 3 seconds

setTimeout(function() {
    sendTextMessage(user, "3");
}, 3000)    

And they should go one after another. You could also embed the functions inside each other if need be.