Discordbot.js

A simple way to add natural-language-powered Discord bots to your server.

Present status and future plans

Work's currently halted. Kinda ran out of ideas.

When discord.js v13 drops, I'm planning a near-full rewrite. Anticipated externally-visible changes include:

• Dropping natural-language input in favor of Slash Commands
  • this includes non-useful "commands" like saying hello and such
• Updating the automatic game-role feature
  • addition of per-server settings (and commands for controlling them)
    • enable/disable
    • custom prefixes
• Updating the automatic temporary-voice-channel feature
  • addition of per-server settings (and commands for controlling them)
    • enable/disable "instance" management (for channels with the name-pattern "some name [number]")
    • enable/disable manual temporary channels (channels spawned from a command)
  • Switch to Slash Commands for manual creation

Internally, I want to:

• Update the interface for settings-storage plugins
• Clean up docker image builds
  • Use GitHub Actions to build them
  • Use GitHub Packages to host them
• Switch to Yarn for dependency management
• Mitigate occasional desync between desired and actual state for game-role and temporary-voice-channel features
  • Occasionally, stuff doesn't apply in the right order because of inconsistency of API call timing and ordering, resulting in the server not ending up in the right state.
  • This is most obvious as a list of empty game roles stacking up because they're not being cleaned up right.
  • I see a couple of ways forward with this:
    1. Implement queueing on a per-server basis for API actions. Queues shouldn't stack up that much - at most I expect to see a few seconds of delay if there's a lot of things to do. This will guarantee that actions execute in an expected order, and I think it's what I need, but I need to reason about it more.
    2. Implement a scheduled janitorial process which goes through and fixes the state periodically. This would be easier to implement (and could even be implemented first) but isn't quite as elegant a solution.
    3. A combination of the above?

Implementation

Luna is this repository's official Discord bot. She's configured with all the default options as specified in this repository, and is nearly always online.

Setup

If you want to build and run from source:

1. git clone the repo.
2. npm i to install all dependencies, and npm run build to build.
3. Configure (see below)
4. npm start to run your bot!

Alternately, compose a Dockerfile depending on the official images. It's not recommended to use :latest.

FROM legowerewolf/discordbot.ts:latest
COPY ./config.yaml ./config/
ENTRYPOINT [ "npm", "start" ]

Configuration

Bots support YAML v1.2/JSON for configuration.

Check out the commented defaults in ./config/defaults.yaml.

User configurations go in ./config/config.yaml or an environment var called botConfig.

Minimum viable configuration

---
APIKeys:
    discord: [API key here]

Permissions

With all features and plugins, the bot needs the following permissions to run.

• Manage Channels
• View Channels
• Send Messages
• Read Message History

Contributing

Things that need to get done:

• Unit tests, holy crap. Worry about the little stuff, there's not much to be done for stuff depending on API data or the state of the whole bot. That said, if you can tell me how to mock the Discord API to run tests, please make an issue so we can discuss it.