Testy the Example Discord Bot

After a few nights of having dreams about the damn discord bot i was working on, i came up with this framework for it.

THIS SOFTWARE IS EXTREMELY EXPERIMENTAL

Beware of bugs, PRs are appreciated -

Keybase team for this repo is kingofalldata.bots.testy

Prerequisites

Node v7.10 or better
discord.js
nodemon (optional)

Installation

Its easy to install testy into a portable package.

Make a directory for your app's data, copy the example-config.js and set up directories for the command and utility scripts

mkdir ~/.testy && cd ~/.testy
git clone https://github.com/koad/testy.git repo
cp repo/sample-config.js config.js && mkdir commands && mkdir utilities
cd repo && npm install

Now you will have a data directory (.testy in your home directory), this repo inside it in a directory called repo, a commands folder where you will put the commands for your bot (in javascript) and a similar directory for your utilities

Open up config.js in your favorite editor and edit the values to reflect your machine/situation

cd ~/.testy && subl config.js

Then to update then run the bot from the repo.

cd ~/.testy/repo && git pull && DATADIR=~/.testy/ node index.js

Optional: Load the sample commands from this repo into your bot instance.

cd ~/.testy && cp repo/sample-commands/* ./commands
cd ~/.testy && cp repo/sample-utilities/* ./utilities

Now you can create various commands and utilities for your bot. Look at the samples in the repo for inspiration and guidance.

References

Discord.js Documentation
Discord.js Guide
The Perfect Lil' Bot by eslachance
An Idiots Guide to Discord - FAQ and short code examples
An Idiots Guide to Discord - Understanding Collections
An Idiots Guide to Discord - Using embeds in messages
Using Async / Await
The Canada eCoin Discord Channels
Don't be silly, use nodemon!

super common data types

message -> https://discord.js.org/#/docs/main/stable/class/Message
user -> https://discord.js.org/#/docs/main/stable/class/User
Guild -> https://discord.js.org/#/docs/main/stable/class/Guild
GuildMember -> https://discord.js.org/#/docs/main/stable/class/GuildMember
Channel -> https://discord.js.org/#/docs/main/stable/class/Channel
Role -> https://discord.js.org/#/docs/main/stable/class/Role
Message -> https://discord.js.org/#/docs/main/stable/class/Message