@paul-thompson Thank you for your question. I will be honest, these guides have been somewhat neglected for which I am personally very sorry. I am in the process of rewriting them now. Of the two guides we link to in our Developer Guide, I have rewritten the first one (not the one you are having trouble with - that is next). The changes have not been published to the website yet, but you can see the new guide in Github: https://github.com/ringcentral/ringcentral-api-docs/blob/master/docs/team-messaging/manual/node.md
The above tutorial utilizes the RingCentral bot framework for Javascript which handles a lot of the complexity for you, and should have you up and running in 10 minutes or so. Take a look at that, while I work on fixing the tutorial called "Building a RingCentral bot locally."
