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Challenge 19 - Write Your Own Discord Bot

This challenge corresponds to the nineteenth part of the Coding Challenges series by John Crickett https://codingchallenges.fyi/challenges/challenge-discord.

Description

This is a simple implementation of a Discord bot written in Node.js using the discord.js module.

The bot supports the following functionalities and slash commands:

• After the bot is added to a server and hosted, it will send to a Hello message sent by the client with the message Hello <user-display-name>.

• Slash commands: These commands are implemented in the commands directory.

  • add: This command takes a URL as an argument and adds a new coding challenge to the bot's DB.
  • challenge: Suggests a random challenge.
  • list: Lists all the challenges available.
  • quote: Fetch a random quote using https://dummyjson.com/quotes/random

More information about the files present in this directory:

• challenge.ts: This file exposes a storage class that is used by the bot to interact with the file based DB.
• index.ts: Entry point of the bot.

Usage

Create a .env file at the root directory of this repository and add the following environment variables:

APP_ID='app-id'
DISCORD_TOKEN='discord-token'
PUBLIC_KEY='public-key'

To change the above behavior of reading the environment variables, go to index.ts and change the following line as per your needs.

config({ path: './.env' });

Go to the root directory of this repository and run the following command to start the discord bot:

# Using ts-node
npx ts-node ./src/19/index.ts

# Using node
node ./build/19/index.js