I set out to create this framework for a few reasons. I come from the Laravel Background, I enjoy coding PHP and I like my code to be extremely OO.
Originally I only planned to write a simple bot for my self... and it ended up being this framework after a couple of years.
Discord.js's command handling framework is very nice, but it's also super basic... doesn't allow for too much customisation and you can't extend any of it.
GitHub allows us to create a new project from the Discord Framework Structure. Visit this link to create your repository: https://github.com/ScooterSam/DiscordBotFrameworkStructure/generate
Once your repository has generated, you will be able to clone it. We are going to clone from the default repository, so we open our console and run
$ git clone https://github.com/ScooterSam/DiscordBotFrameworkStructure.git DiscordBot
This will create a new folder in our current working directly, named "DiscordBot" this contains everything we need to start writing our own simple bot!
Most of the frameworks configurations are very simple. To start off we have an .example.env file by default.
If we copy this file and name it ".env" the framework will load its most basic configs from here. Such as discord bot id, database credentials, discord bot token, etc
DISCORD_BOT_ID=
DISCORD_INTRO_CHANNEL=
DISCORD_TOKEN=
ENV=dev
DB_NAME=
DB_PORT=3306
DB_USER=root
DB_PASS=
DB_HOST=localhost
{% hint style="info" %} Make sure to copy the .example.env file and rename it to .env {% endhint %}