gilbot.js

A discord bot

Running

We are using yarn as our package manager and the default/expected commands should be ready out of the box.

• installing

yarn

• running

yarn run start

Additional dependencies

The program also uses ffmpeg (for video downloading and streaming) and requires a discord bot token.

By default, you can store your keys in either a secrets/secrets.json file following the format:

{
  "token": "<discord bot token string>"
}

Or by having it as environment variables (check src/index.js) file for further documentation.

Deploying

Currently I'm the bot is being deployed through heroku and the Procfile already contains your required commands for that, however, for it's complete functionality, you'll also need to add your keys as environment variables in your heroku application dashboard as well as the ffmpeg dependency in your heroku buildpacks (the URL for the ffmpeg buildpack can be found in the ./buildpacks file).

Styling

The code uses the default airbnb eslint configuration with small tunings (80 characters max line length because I like to use split screens). The project itself is contains a prettier config file that most modern editors can interpret and use with very convenient plugins.