Basic discord bot

A bot setup based on guide provided on https://discordjs.guide/ with autoloading new commands in addition.

Setup

Clone this repo

git clone git@github.com:Rantti/basic-discord-bot.git

Install dependencies

npm install

Create .env file based on template and fill in variables inside.

cp .env.template .env

Basically you need to fetch your bot token provided by discord from their applications management page. Select your bot application or create a new one. Then from the left sidebar from selected application select "Bot" under settings and reveal the token found there.

Run application:

node .

For development you can use nodemon to reload app as you make changes to it:

npm run dev

.env variables

Variable name	Description
TOKEN	Bot token assigned to your application
COMMAND_PREFIX	Prefix for commands to recognize commands designated for bot, defaults to "!"

Command template

Currently only message-based commands are supported. You can create a new command under commands/message/-directory and the application will automatically load the new command.

module.exports = {
    command: 'template',
    description: 'Template command', // Description, used in "list" command.
    callBack: function(message, args) {
        // Your command logic here
    },
};

• command - name of the command that needs to be sent for callback to be executed
• description - straightforward short description what the command does. Used currently by list command.
• callBack(message, args) - Executed callback. message variable is the Message class used by discord.js. args is an array of words separated by empty space after the command in sent message.