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