TypeScript Support

discord-features-handler support typescript natively allowing you to code your discord.js bot in typescript.

Setup

npm install --save-dev typescript tsx ts-node @types/node tsup

then add tsconfig.json in your project root folder

tsconfig.json

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "ESNext",
    "module": "CommonJS",
    "rootDir": "./src",
    "outDir": "./dist",
    "typeRoots": ["./src/types"],
    "removeComments": true,
    "resolveJsonModule": true,
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
    "strict": true,
    "strictNullChecks": true,
    "skipLibCheck": true
  }
}

then update package.json with the following:

package.json

  "main": "src/index.ts",
  "type": "commonjs",
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "tsx watch src/index.ts",
    "start": "node dist/index.js",
    "build": "tsup src/ --minify",
    "prod": "pm2 start dist/index.js"
  },

Starting the bot

First compile the code:

npm run build

now you can start up the bot using the following:

npm run dev