This is an application that streams messages in a discord channel to a web frontend. The frontend is build with React while the backend is build with Nodejs.

The building process was done in roughly three steps:

• creating the discord bot
• leveraging discord.js and socket.io in the backend to pull messages from the discord channel and establish a two way communication stream
• setup the client using the library socket.io-client to consume messages in the backend

Relevant concepts covered

• discord.js
• socket.io library

You can use the app to stream messages from any other channel, provided you enter your channel id (DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID) as well as your Bot token (DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN) as backend environmental variables.

Acknowledgments: ❤️

• Thanks to lamadev for this beautiful tutorial on using socket.io
• Thanks to railway for setting up this challenge

Possible updates

• Introduce a filter