kjm015/New-Kyle

This app is a Discord bot using Kotlin, Spring Boot, JDA, and JDA Utilities.

New-Kyle

Welcome! This project is an open-source Kotlin-based Discord bot that uses the JDA and Josh Grosh's JDA Utilities.

Introduction

This project is a collaboration between myself and a few of my friends. It is a proof of concept and learning tool for those who wish to learn modern development practices and tools. It was inspired by one of our friends who used to be in our Discord server. The functionality contained within is supposed to emulate his mannerism as closely as possible.

Build and Deployment Instructions

This application can be run either from the latest published release, built from source, or deployed using docker. The application depends on four environmental variables being set.

Environment variable	Description	Example
DISCORD_TOKEN	Bot token	DRSdfL2sRBB4d54Rs5DSTp69C4TRAFb1.9aqaVAPiod6Ma5xC6HMwWQ8rvvMA43ATD9Uwkpcq5LVQUw
DISCORD_OWNER	Owner user id	965407413600764227
DISCORD_GAME	Game	My Game
DISCORD_PREFIX	Bot command prefix	!kyle

Build locally

To build from source and run locally, set the environment variables and run the bootRun task using the gradle wrapper script:

Windows

  set DISCORD_TOKEN=your-bot-token-here
  set DISCORD_OWNER=your-discord-id-here
  set DISCORD_GAME=My Game
  set DISCORD_PREFIX=!kyle 
  .\gradlew.bat bootRun

Linux

  export DISCORD_TOKEN=your-bot-token-here
  export DISCORD_OWNER=your-discord-id-here
  export DISCORD_GAME=My Game
  export DISCORD_PREFIX='!kyle '
  ./gradlew bootRun

Current State and Future Plans

As it stands, this bot is simply a testbed and learning platform for myself and my friends to get acquainted with modern development tools and APIs. Eventually, I plan on taking the things that were most valuable in this project and moving on to develop a more serious, useful bot for a wider audience.

For now, it is purely for recreation. More updates will be posted as more functionality of the bot becomes available.