---
title: Telegram Bot
description: An ExpressJS server with a Telegram bot
tags:
  - express
  - telegraf
  - typescript
---

# Telegram bot example

This example starts a [Telegram](https://telegram.org/) bot on an [ExpressJS](https://expressjs.com/) server.

[![Deploy on Railway](https://railway.app/button.svg)](https://railway.app/new?template=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Frailwayapp%2Fexamples%2Ftree%2Fmaster%2Fexamples%2Ftelegram-bot&envs=TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN)

## ✨ Features

- Telegraf (library to interact with the Telegram bot API)
- Express
- TypeScript

## 💁‍♀️ How to use

- Install dependencies `yarn`
- Connect to your Railway project `railway link`
- Start the development server `railway run yarn dev`

## 📝 Notes

The server started launches a Telegram bot with a couple of basic commands. The code is located at `src/index.ts`.