NetCord: A C# repository from NetCord Development

The modern and fully customizable C# Discord library

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📦 Installation
🚀 Showcase
🎨 Features
🥅 Goals
📚 Guides
📄 Documentation
🩹 Support
📜 License

1. 📦 Installation

You can install NetCord packages via NuGet package manager:

Package	Description
NetCord	Core package with fundamental functionality.
NetCord.Services	Facilitates seamless handling of commands and interactions.
NetCord.Hosting	Provides .NET Generic Host extensions for the NetCord package.
NetCord.Hosting.Services	Provides .NET Generic Host extensions for the NetCord.Services package.
NetCord.Hosting.AspNetCore	Provides ASP.NET Core extensions for seamless handling of HTTP interactions.

2. 🚀 Showcase

This snippet showcases a bot with a minimal API-style /square command and includes a module-based /greet command.

Required usings omitted for readability, click here to show

using Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting;

using NetCord;
using NetCord.Services.ApplicationCommands;
using NetCord.Hosting.Gateway;
using NetCord.Hosting.Services.ApplicationCommands;

Minimal API-style Bot Example

The following example sets up a bot with a minimal API-style approach for the /square command, which calculates the square of a number:

var builder = Host.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
    .UseDiscordGateway()
    .UseApplicationCommands<SlashCommandInteraction, SlashCommandContext>();

var host = builder.Build()
    .AddSlashCommand<SlashCommandContext>("square", "Square!", (int a) => $"{a}² = {a * a}")
    .UseGatewayEventHandlers();

await host.RunAsync();

Module-based Command Example

Moreover, you can use a module-based approach. Here's an example of a /greet command that greets a specified user:

public class GreetingModule : ApplicationCommandModule<SlashCommandContext>
{
    [SlashCommand("greet", "Greet someone!")]
    public string Greet(User user) => $"{Context.User} greets {user}!";
}

3. 🎨 Features

Fully customizable - NetCord is fully customizable and extensible
Easy to use - NetCord is easy to use and understand
Lightweight - NetCord is lightweight and performant
Asynchronous - NetCord is fully asynchronous and concurrent
AOT-ready - NetCord supports Native AOT compilation
Immutable - NetCord's caching is immutable by default
Voice-ready - NetCord supports both sending and receiving voice
Comprehensive - NetCord covers the entire Discord API and more

4. 🥅 Goals

NetCord's goal is to allow .NET developers to create fully customizable Discord bots without fighting the API wrapper itself. NetCord is designed to be easy to use and fully customizable, while still being lightweight and performant.