Making a basic bot

Create Application

First, you need to create an application in Discord's Developer Portal. Head to the Applications Pageopen in new window and press the New Application button. A popup will appear asking to enter the application's name. You can name it whatever you want.

New Application

Go to the Bot section on the left and click Add Bot. It'll ask you for confirmation (you cannot delete the bot afterwards). Just click on Yes, do it!, after you're done contemplating your life choices.

Add Bot

And your bot was successfully created! You can now invite the bot to your server.
Go to the OAuth2 tab and select the bot scope. You can also scroll down a bit, and select whatever permissions you want.

OAuth2

Getting the bot token

A token is something like a password, which every Discord user has. You can use it to login to your bot.

Go back to the Bot page, and press the Copy Token button. The token will be copied to your clipboard. You can also Click to Reveal Token.

Token

WARNING

Tokens should never be shared with anyone! A token gives complete access to a bot, which can be abused badly.

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In case you forgot your token, or someone else has got your token, the best way is to regenerate it using the Regenerate button.

Writing code

Let's actually start writing code!
Create your main file and call it something like index.js.
Then, paste this code in:

const { GCommandsClient } = require("gcommands");
const { join } = require('path');
const client = new GCommandsClient({
  loader: {
    cmdDir: join(__dirname, 'commands'),
    eventDir: join(__dirname, 'events'),
  },
  language: "english", // english, spanish, portuguese, russian, german, czech, slovak, turkish, polish, indonesian, italian
  commands: {
    caseSensitiveCommands: false, // true or false | whether to match the commands' caps
    caseSensitivePrefixes: false, // true or false | whether to match the prefix in message commands
    allowDm: false, // true or false | DM Support
    
    // Slash, context, prefix
    slash: "both", // https://gcommands.js.org/docs/#/docs/main/main/typedef/GCommandsOptionsCommandsSlash
    context: "false", // https://gcommands.js.org/docs/#/docs/main/main/typedef/GCommandsOptionsCommandsContext
    prefix: ".", // for normal commands
  },
  arguments: {
    // Argument prompt deleting and input deleting, there is now a option available to delete the prompt/input for arguments.
    deleteInput: true, // Default false
    deletePrompt: true, // Default false
  },
  defaultCooldown: "3s",
  database: "url",
  /* DB SUPPORT
   * redis://user:pass@localhost:6379
   * mongodb://user:pass@localhost:27017/dbname
   * sqlite://path/to/database.sqlite
   * postgresql://user:pass@localhost:5432/dbname
   * mysql://user:pass@localhost:3306/dbname
   */
});

client.on("ready", () => {
  console.log("Ready");
});
client.on("debug", console.log); // warning | this also enables the default discord.js debug logging
client.on("log", console.log);

client.login("TOKEN");

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WARNING

commands.slash and commands.context are default options. Any options set in commands will overwrite these options.

Below are all the available options for GCommandsClientopen in new window:

PARAMETER	REQUIRED	FUNCTIONALITY
loaders.cmdDir	✅	The directory to look for commands in
loaders.eventDir	❌	The directory to look for events in
commands.caseSensitiveCommands	❌	If set to true, command names will be case sensitive
commands.caseSensitivePrefixes	❌	If set to true, prefixes will be case sensitive
language	✅	The default language used to sends messages in
commands.slash	✅	If set to slash, the bot will only register slash commands. If set to message, the bot will only register message commands. If set to both, the bot will register both and if set to false, the bot will not register any.
commands.context	✅	If set to user, the bot will register user context commands. If set to false, the bot will only register message commands. If set to message, the bot will register message context commands. If set to both, the bot will register both
commands.prefix	❌	The prefix the bot will use in message commands
commands.allowDm	❌	DM Support
arguments.deleteInput	❌	Argument input deleting
arguments.deletePrompt	❌	Argument prompt deleting
defaultCooldown	❌	The default cooldown for commands
database	❌	The database to store guild prefixes, etc. in

WARNING

You need to have discord.js@12+

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Use node . in the console to start the bot!

For further setup see:

Coding your Bot:

# Making a basic bot

# Create Application

# Getting the bot token

# Writing code

Making a basic bot

Create Application

Getting the bot token

Writing code