Discord Bot Template

Your bot has been delivered! Here is the repository with the source code. As a reminder, here are the features of the bot:

• Feature 1
• Feature 2
• Feature 3

Installation

You can install and host this bot on your own server. Here are the main steps:

• Download and install Node.js v18 or higher.
• Download and install PostgreSQL v15 or higher.
• Create a new database and a new role that has access to the database.
• Install the dependencies of the project by running yarn install.
• Run yarn build to get the JavaScript output of the project.
• Install PM2 or another process manager to keep your bot alive, or run yarn start.
• You are done!

Configuration

All configuration for this template can be made in the .env file found in the root directory. Below will be details about each setting.

DISCORD_CLIENT_TOKEN: Your Discord Bot's token which you can find Here.

DB_NAME: The name of the PostgreSQL database you created.
DB_USERNAME: The username of the role with read and write access to the database.
DB_PASSWORD: The password of the role.

EMBED_COLOR: The color which you would like your embed's side bar to be. (BLUE, #FF0000, Ect.)

COMMAND_PREFIX: The prefix before the command name to execute that command.

GUILD_ID: This is optional. In the case that your bot runs on a private server, it should be the ID of the server. Otherwise, leave empty (if this field is filled, it will be faster to create Slash Commands).

ENVIRONMENT: Can be ENVIRONMENT or PRODUCTION. Defines whether some scripts or things should be run or not. For example, the database schemas will not be modified in production, even to synchronize them, because we may loose data.

SENTRY_API_KEY: This is optional. If you want to use Sentry to monitor your bot, you can put your API key here. Otherwise, leave empty.

Bugs or questions

If you have any issue or bug with this bot, you can contact me using Discord, Androz#2091.

Detailed installation on Debian 11

Getting started

sudo apt-get update

Install tools

sudo apt-get install git gnupg2 wget curl software-properties-common build-essential ffmpeg -y

Install PostgreSQL

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt $(lsb_release -cs)-pgdg main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install postgresql

Configure PostgreSQL

sudo -u postgres psql

Commands to run on the PSQL shell:

CREATE DATABASE bot;
CREATE USER my_bot WITH PASSWORD 'heythere';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO my_bot;

Open PostgreSQL connections (optional)

nano /etc/postgresql/15/main/postgresql.conf # listen_adresses = '*'
nano /etc/postgresql/15/main/pg_hba.conf # host all all 0.0.0.0/0 scram-sha-256

Install node

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install nodejs -y
sudo npm i -g pm2 yarn typescript

Create an account for the bot

adduser bot
su bot

Add your GitHub SSH KEY

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "androz2091@gmail.com" # this is an example, replace with your email
cat .ssh/id_ed25519.pub # add the result at https://github.com/settings/keys

Clone the repository

git clone git@github.com:Name/Repo

Finish the installation

cd repo
yarn
yarn build
pm2 start dist/index.js --name bot