hera is a Discord bot developed by me for my family. It acts as a helper bot to ease the process of reminding them events.
hera is a node.js application utilizing different node modules, including:
- Discord.js (for Discord API interactions)
- node-postgres (for making and handling queries to the PostgreSQL server)
Currently, hera is being hosted 24/7 on a free Heroku server, with automatic deployment routed to this repository.
As mentioned above, hera stores and acquires data in a PostgreSQL database. The database is also handled by Heroku.
Checks who is available for lunch/dinner on a given date (defaults to today). Example:
hera who home dinner
Records your availability for lunch/dinner on a given date (defaults to today). Example:
hera no dinner tonight (party with friends)
Records your new weekly routine for lunch/dinner on a given weekday. Example:
hera home lunch all friday
Shows the lunch/dinner schedule of the whole week for a given person (defaults to yourself). Example:
hera show mum
Since some of my family members aren't programmers, I try to make my commands as "English-like" as possible. One of my approaches to achieving this is to handle time expressions like English, such as "today", "tonight" or "tomorrow". I would add in additional finders to handle these words, which improves user experience.
- grocery list function
- sending reminder messages
- making a database for chores