apekletsbot

Just a discord bot that does some stuff

Setup

Real quick, some setup info. You will need a MySQL / MariaDB server. Then, all that really needs to be done is installing dependencies and setting environment variables. So:

npm install

Create a file called .env with the following values:

TOKEN={discord bot login token}
HOST={database server host}
USER={database server user}
PW={database server password}
DB={database name}

Now the discord bot can run with node index.js. Alternatively, run the discord bot with a process managing package like pm2. Or if on linux create a system service. For example:

# discordbot.service
[Unit]
Description=Discord Bot

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/apeklets/discordbot/index.js
Restart=always
#User=nobody
# Note Debian/Ubuntu uses 'nogroup', RHEL/Fedora uses 'nobody'
#Group=nogroup
Environment=PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
Environment=NODE_ENV=production
WorkingDirectory=/home/apeklets/discordbot

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

And then start the service with something like systemctl --user enable discordbot, view live log output with journalctl --user-unit discordbot -f