discord-bot-template

Discord Bot Written in JavaScript with the Node.js platform using ECMAScript Modules.

1. Install the requirements

• Node.js
• NPM

2. Install the Discord JavaScript module

$ npm install

3. Create the configuration file

$ touch settings.json

Warning: this file should never be put in versionning or disclosed.

4. Edit the configuration file

{
  "token": "yourbottoken"
}

Where yourbottoken is the token you copied from your Developer Portal's application bot.

5. Start the bot

$ npm start

5. TODO

• Import the file system Node.js built-in module
• Import the Discord JavaScript library
• Read the content of the configuration file as raw text and then
• Handle any configuration reading errors
• Parse the content of the configuration file as JSON
• Handle any parse errors
• Initialize the Discord client with the wanted intents
• Listen for when the bot is ready
• Login with the token
• Listen for when a message is sent
• Listen for when an error occurred
• Handle any login errors