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Demo Discord Bot

A Discord.js demo bot for this package, will be called heroku-bot on github.

Clone the repository

# Clone your forked repository
git clone https://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/heroku-bot.git

# Navigate into the repository
cd heroku-bot

# Add the original repository as a remote named 'upstream'
git remote add upstream https://github.com/bng94/heroku-bot.git

# Verify the remote configuration
git remote -v

# Clone your forked repository and checkout the 'Typescript' branch
git clone --branch Typescript https://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/heroku-bot.git

# Navigate into the repository
cd heroku-bot

# Add the original repository as a remote named 'upstream'
git remote add upstream https://github.com/bng94/heroku-bot.git

# Verify the remote configuration
git remote -v

Afterwards make sure to install all the dependencies required by using: 

npm install

Create your Environment variables file

This file is called .env and should be in the same parent folder as your index.js file. You can learn more about the environment variables here.

Define the following variables: DISCORD_TOKEN, OWNER_ID, CLIENT_ID, DEVELOPMENT_GUILD_ID.

Starting the bot

node index.js
or 
pm2 start index.js

First compile the code: 

npm run build
now you can start up the bot using the following: 
npm run dev
or 
npm run prod

Now your bot should be up and running. You can check these out to set up your bot.