Discord Joie Bot

A boilerplate to quickly deploy a powerful Discord bots. Quickly and painlessly deploy a powerful, lightweight and extremely easy-to-manage Discord bot for both beginners and expert users. No experience needed.

Features

• 100% free and open source.
• Fully customizable, host on your own server!
• Quick deployment: Get the bot online in > 1 minute.
• Extremely lightweight, less than 1MB.
• Fully commented: Easy for a new developer to understand and navigate.
• Powerful command handler.
• Built in !commands and !help commands.
• Grant helper points to helpful people.
• Manage a helper leaderboard
• Tracks which country people are from.
• Provides an aggregate for countries.
• Keeps track of people's tech stack
• Allows search of people by what technology they use.
• Allows search of people's tech stack.

How-to / Setup

Prerequisites:

• NodeJS installed on the machine.
• Mongodb
  • Installed locally. Guide here
  • Or you can use free tier from mongodb.
• Your Discord bot's token. (Create Discord bot here)
• Your Discord bot invited to your server.
• A brain. 🧠

Steps to start coding 🚀

Fork the repository

Clone your repository.

git clone git@github.com:YOUR_USER:YOUR_FORK.git

Open a terminal, and navigate to your project.

cd YOUR_FORK

Copy .env.example file.

cp .env.example .env

Setup your environment variables in .env file.

Install npm dependencies

npm install

Start Coding 👨‍💻👩‍💻

npm run dev

FAQ

How can I change the bot's prefix?

• The prefix is defined in the .env file.

How I can start contributing?

• Fork the project
• Follow How-to / Setup to prepare everything you need
• You are ready!

How I can use local mongodb ???

• Your local mongodb url will most likely look like this: "mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/joie". Where 27017 is default mongodb port and joie is your database name.

Does this bot moderation feature commands like !purge, !kick, and !ban?

• It does not. This is not quite a moderation/utility bot.

How can I host my bot when I'm away from my machine, 24/7?

• For that, you'll need to run the program on a remote machine. You'll need a VPS of your own. You can get a VPS for less than $10/month on https://revolt.host/!

Where can I donate?

• You can support UNDERFORUMS on Patreon, send tips to my Bitcoin address (3HFuhH4enDUKFqokiron6jyMSzPVwNHkTW), or send me XLM on Keybase (@youngseebi)!

Can you develop a bot for me?

• I'd love to! Reach out to me if you'd like to hire me.