discord-bot-template

A WIP starter template for Discord bots built on a discord-akario. Dependencies are most likely out of date due to lack of maintenance.

Database

Quick.db is installed by default with some example helper methods defined in structures/Guild.js & structures/GuildMember.js. If you would like to change it out with anotherdatabase, it is easy to do so.

View more information about Quick.db here

More information on discord-akairo's database handling can be found here.

Getting Started

1. Clone/Download this repo
2. Install the packages using npm/yarn
3. Create a .env file & place your token under a property titled 'TOKEN' to run.
4. Modify the prefix and ownerID in config.json
5. Run the bot

Default Commands

Current commands of which are supported within this template: Info, Eval, Ping, Prefix

Ability to add more commands by following this basic template:

const { Command } = require('discord-akairo');

class COMMANDNAME extends Command {
    constructor() {
        super('COMMANDNAME', {
            aliases: ['COMMANDALIASES']
        });
    }

    async exec(message) {
        // Code
    }
}

module.exports = COMMANDNAME;

Creating a Discord Bot

Visit Discords Developer Portal: https://discordapp.com/developers/applications/ Click "New Application", Enter in your applications name, Click on "Bot", Then make your application into a bot process.

This will allow you to obtain your Discord Bots Token.