This repo contains the code used in How to Make a Discord Bot: an Overview and Tutorial on the Toptal Engineering Blog.
Premium Bot is an example bot that helps manage donations and donor roles in a Discord server.
Hello people from 2023 and beyond! At the time of this writing, the code in this repo still works. However, the eris bot library used heavily within is no longer actively maintained and I believe it is no longer suitable for building new Discord bots.
Therefore I have decided to deprecate and archive this repo.
Discord.js is the dominant Node.js library for building Discord bots, and their documentation is a great place to start for aspiring bot developers in 2023.
Eris does have at least a couple of successors:
Source code is included for every step presented in the tutorial part of the blog post.
After cloning the repo, install dependencies with npm install.
Provide your bot token, Discord user ID, and the ID of your log channel in config.json. If you have publicly forked this repo, be sure to remove config.json from source control.
The final code can then be run with npm start or node src/bot.js.
Code for other steps can be run with node src/bot_step1.js, node src/bot_step2.js, etc.
June 11, 2022 - Updated Eris to the latest version, updated package-lock.json format for NPM 7+.
April 24, 2021 - Updated Eris to the latest version.
July 21, 2020 - Updated Eris to the latest version, fixed missing return statement, fixed mention handling, used toFixed for string formatting.