Discord bots with VegaHQ

WARNING: Don't use this guide, as it is now no longer up to the current API

You can either follow this text guide, or follow along with the podcast episode we hosted about this topic here. It is however in Slovenian.

First steps

1. Register a bot with discord here
2. Grab the token
3. Proceed to setup

!!Disclaimer Never reveal your token to anyone you don't trust

Setup

1. Initialize the node project

npm init -y

If you don't have node and npm installed, you can install them from here. After installation, verify it with node -v and npm -v.

2. After we initialize the node project, we create three files named: .gitignore, .env and index.js.

3. Then we execute:

npm install discord.js dotenv

By now our file structure should look like this:

|   node_modules
|   .env
|   .gitignore
|   index.js
|   package-lock.json
|   package.json
└── README.md

4. Then We set our file contents to this:

.gitignore

.env
node_modules/

.env

TOKEN=yourDiscordBotToken

index.js

// Imports necessary libs and initializes discord client
const Discord = require('discord.js');
const client = new Discord.Client();

require('dotenv').config(); // Inits dotenv config

const TOKEN = process.env.TOKEN; // Grabs our token from the .env file

client.login(TOKEN); // Logs in the bot with our token

// Logs the tag of our bot and console logs on ready
client.on('ready', () => {
    console.info(`Logged in as ${client.user.tag}`);
});

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