setup

Setting Up

Installation

Before even doing anything else, you of course have to install the Discord.js and Akairo.

Yarn 2.0+ needs to have the version specified due to this issue. If you are using yarn 2.0 use the second command.

discord-akairo
yarn add discord-akairo@npm:@notenoughupdates/discord-akairo@dev
npm i discord-akairo@npm:@notenoughupdates/discord-akairo

discord.js fork
optional you can use regular discord.js instead if you want
yarn add discord.js@npm:@notenoughupdates/discord.js@dev
npm i discord.js@npm:@notenoughupdates/discord.js

Once everything has been installed, your working directory should look something like this:

mybot
|____ node_modules
      bot.js

Main File

Inside bot.ts, import discord-akairo and extend the AkairoClient class to customize your client.
As your bot gets more complicated, you may want to separate this client class from your main file.

import { AkairoClient } from "discord-akairo";

class MyClient extends AkairoClient {
  constructor() {
    super({
      // Options for Akairo and discord.js go here.
    });
  }
}

const client = new MyClient();
client.login("TOKEN");

There are some options you may want to setup first, for example, the owner of the bot. If you would like to have multiple owners simply add those with an array.
We want to use Discord.js's allowedMentions option too.

import { AkairoClient } from "discord-akairo";

class MyClient extends AkairoClient {
  constructor() {
    super({
      intents: [
        /* choose intents based on what you need your bot needs to do */
      ],
      ownerID: "123992700587343872", // or ['123992700587343872', '86890631690977280']
      allowedMentions: { parse: ["users"] }
    });
  }
}

const client = new MyClient();
client.login("TOKEN");