Advanced v14 prefix and slash command discord bot

Easy to use and beginner friendly package that offers the use of both slash commands and prefix command as well as database connection using mongoDB. Easy to set up and get started in. Comes with a few basic starter commands and events such as command logging, guild create & delete events and more...

• Installation
• Usage
• Support
• License

• Download Node.js.
• Download Visual Studio Code.

• Project Setup

  1. Fork the Github project :

     1. Sign up / Sign in to GitHub.
     2. Navigate to Testify.
     3. Click Star to support development.
     4. Click Fork to copy all code to your own repository.

  2. Click the Code button. From the drop-down that appears, click Download ZIP to download the entire repository as a ZIP folder.

  3. Extract the files to a new folder and open it with Visual Studio Code.

• Obtain Discord Bot Token

  1. Sign in to Discord Developer Portal.

  2. Create a bot :

     1. Enter the left side Applications.
     2. Click New Application in the upper right corner and enter the name of the bot. After confirmation, enter the new page.
     3. Click on the left side Bot.
     4. Enable all intents listed under Privileged Gateway Intents and click Save Changes.
     5. View and copy the token by clicking the Reset Token button.

  3. Set up OAuth2 :

     1. Click on OAuth2 in the left column.
     2. Click on URL Generator in the left column.
     3. In the right column, select bot and applications.commands under SCOPES.
     4. Scroll down and select Administrator under BOT PERMISSIONS.
     5. Copy the URL at the bottom and paste it into your browser.
     6. Choose the server you want to add the bot to and click Continue > Authorize.

• Obtain MongoDB Connection String

  1. Sign up / Sign in to MongoDB.
  2. Choose your preferred cloud database plan.
  3. Customize the cluster settings to your preference and click Create Cluster.
  4. Navigate to the Network Access page, click Add IP Address and select Allow access from anywhere.
  5. Navigate back to the Database page and click Connect.
  6. Create a database user, click Choose a connection method and select Connect your application.
  7. Copy your connection string and replace <password> with the password for the database user that you created earlier.

• Setting up the env file

  If you go along with this, you can ignore the parts in the Project Execution that explain how to generate and fill in the .env

  1. For easy setup of the env file, ( .env ) you can run the command npm run setup-env
  2. Once you've ran the command, it generates a script in the console
  3. You need to then fill out the fields in the console. Fields marked with the text "Required" are you required fields and you need to fill those ones in. The script will not continue if you ignore to fill in those fields.
  4. Once you've filled in the field, it will write those fields into and generate the .env.
  5. Alternatively, you can ignore this and fill in the fields yourself by viewing the .example.env file.
  6. You then should be good, and your .env should be setup.

• Project Execution

  1. Rename the filed named example.env to .env
  2. Navigate to the Bot page on the Discord Developer Portal and click Reset Token. Afterwards, create a .env file within the root directory.
  3. Paste your bot token into the token variable inside the .env file.
  4. Paste your MongoDB connection string into the mongodb variable inside the .env file.
  5. Navigate to the OAuth2 page and copy the CLIENT ID.
  6. Paste your client ID into the clientid variable inside the .env file.
  7. Navigate to your discord server, enable developer mode and right click the dropdown beside the server name.
  8. Click Copy Server ID and paste it into the guildid variable inside the .env file.
  9. Navigate to the package.json file and pay attention to the runnable commands listed under scripts.
  10. Open the terminal in Visual Studio Code and install all necessary packages using npm run setup. This will install the dependencies and give you a brief install guide
  11. Open a new terminal and type npm run start to run the file without using nodemon or npm run start:nodemon to run the bot with nodemon.
  12. The bot should then turn online, you should be able to see this by the console logs that is setup upon start up

• Runnable commands (scripts)

  npm run start -
  This starts up the bot with the contents from the .env file. Essentially the same as running node .

  npm run setup-env -
  To run the setup of the .env file you can run the command npm run setup-env, this generates a script in the console that generates a .env file and where you fill out the fields with whats required for the .env file and it writes it in the file.

Connect with us on Discord for support / any related inquiry.

Released under the terms of MIT License license.

Thanks to thelegendev for the readme template from Nub Bot 💛