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🧶 Introduction

Here you will find all the steps needed to set-up your first discord bot with this template.

🔮 Step 1

Download the template from the repository by clicking on the Download ZIP button.

If you are more advance you can clone the repository usin git or github desktop

🪁 Step 2

Once you have downloaded the template, extract the files to a folder of your choice.

If you are using git/hub desktop just move to the directory that has been created

🧩 Step 3

Open the folder in your favorite code editor. I recommend Visual Studio Code.

⚠️ Step 4

Let's rename the .env.example file to .env and fill in the required information.

See how to get this values here

😉 Step 5

Open a terminal in your code editor and run the following command to install the required dependencies.

To open the terminal in vscode press Ctrl+`

npm install

here i use npm ci to make a clean install for the picture

🚀 Step 6

Now that you have installed the dependencies, you can start the bot by running the following command.

npm start # Recommended when hosting the bot

npm run dev # Recommended when adding/working on the bot, it will restart the bot on file changes

Tip

Congratulations, you have successfully set-up your first discord bot with this template 🎉