How to make my bot reconnect automatically? | discord.js - imagine an app | Page 1

ember jungleBOT Sep 7, 2022, 9:55 AM

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• What's your exact discord.js npm list discord.js and node node -v version?
• Post the full error stack trace, not just the top part!
• Show your code!
• Explain what exactly your issue is.
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outer mesa Sep 7, 2022, 4:50 PM

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Could you please add a listener to shardError and check if it emits something?

remote aspen Sep 8, 2022, 5:44 AM

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npm i pm2

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pm2 start file.js

edgy kite Sep 10, 2022, 9:59 AM

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it's not what you want

sweet lion Sep 10, 2022, 11:29 AM

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if you handle error events and discord.js can resume the websocket, it will do so

sweet lion Sep 10, 2022, 12:35 PM

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you always needed to handle error events to not crash

outer mesa Sep 10, 2022, 1:09 PM

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You received a regular close code on your websocket here… do you use any proxy or other shenanigans?

outer mesa Sep 10, 2022, 1:25 PM

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The thing is also that discord changed some things about their gateway, we hear more issues with reconnecting like this lately, both for v13 and v14.

outer mesa Sep 10, 2022, 1:40 PM

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sweet lion if you handle error events and discord.js can resume the websocket, it will do s...

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You already implemented a shardError handler, so you did part of it…

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What? No

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catch errors where they happen to keep your bot from crashing. Then djs will reconnect if it can. If your bot crashes without any error/rejection then you either have an error handler that ignores errors instead of handling them or you the process ended regularly meaning the client got destroyed

#How to make my bot reconnect automatically?