Discord

Creating a Discord bot with JSTime

Discord bots perform actions in response to application commands. There are 3 types of commands accessible in different interfaces: the chat input, a message’s context menu (top-right menu or right-clicking in a message), and a user’s context menu (right-clicking on a user).

To get started you can use the interactions template:

jstime create discord-interactions my-interactions-bot
cd my-interactions-bot

If you don’t have a Discord bot/application yet, you can create one here (https://discord.com/developers/applications/me).

Invite bot to your server by visiting https://discord.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=<your_application_id>&scope=bot%20applications.commands

Afterwards you will need to get your bot’s token, public key, and application id from the application page and put them into .env.example file

Then you can run the http server that will handle your interactions:

$ jspm install
$ mv .env.example .env
$ jstime run.js # listening on port 1337

Discord does not accept an insecure HTTP server, so you will need to provide an SSL certificate or put the interactions server behind a secure reverse proxy. For development, you can use ngrok/cloudflare tunnel to expose local ports as secure URL.