DJ Discord Bot

Practice Course outline for Udemy

Part 1: Register Discord Bot

Steps:

1. Install the Discord app
2. Create a Server for practice
3. Submit an application for a bot on Discord

• Under Redirects so you can register the app to test it locally
  • http://localhost:3001/auth/discord/redirect
• Enable scopes:
  • bot
  • for oauth2 bots, this puts the bot in the user's selected guild by default
  • applications.commands
  • allows your app to add commands to a guild - included by default with the bot scope
• Enable permissions:
  • Enable slash commands

Information about OAuth2, scopes, and permissions

4. Install Dotenv and DiscordJS

npm install dotenv
npm install discord.js

What is Dotenv npm library?

Loads the environmental variables from the .env file

What is DiscordJS npm library?

Discord.js is a powerful Node.js module that allows you to easily interact with the Discord API. Needs NodeJS v18 and higher.