Trsh_bot

Check out my video about my process and lessons learned!

Trsh_bot is a Twitch chat bot made using JS, tmi.js, node, node fs, and pos.js

This is a personal project for my Twitch channel and is being created and maintained by me w/ help and input from interested community members.

Lessons Learned:

Coding @trsh_bot has taught me:

• OAuth2 and API security
  • HTTP POST
  • maintaining & securing API tokens
  • Automating re-authentication
  • Developer API scope
• Working with JSON
  • Reading and writing to a JSON file
  • JSON.parse()
  • JSON.stringify()
• Working with SQLite and Databases
• Creating a Docker image and container
• Sanitizing user input
• Secure production environment
  • localhost
  • formatting evironment variables and use for open-source sharing
  • creating files on startup with node filesystem

...more to come

Dependencies

This project is configured to use npm with the following installs:

tmi.js

compromise

sqlite3

docker

Filesystem:

Upon startup the program will create the following EMPTY files w/i the /data directory:

data/api.json : for holding secured credentials including API key/ client secret etc. (Please refer to "mockApi.json" as a reference for formatting environment variables).

data/prompts.sqlite : for holding AI art prompts received from chat using the !prompt command

data/quoteDB.json : for holding a DB of quotes added by chat/ viewers which include author, date, etc.