Getting objects from client cache after sharding

[distant summit]

So I am about to shard my bot... its not yet public but I want to make it shard compatible from the beginning.
My question is that... is getting stuff like guild object or user object from the cache or anything from the client cache in general if its different after sharding

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[distant summit]

discord.js and node

[weak parrot]

Depends on how you want to shard. Djs supports internal sharding (with several ws connections in the same process) that doesn’t affect how you work at all.
Traditional sharding (with several processes) needs you to get the information you need from other shards through IPC. Don‘t send full instances over that (since they get JSONified anyway) but only the data you actually need.

[distant summit]

so is this internal ?

which one is more efficient tbh

[weak parrot]

That is traditional. Internal is only specifying shards: option in client constructor, the rest is same as unsharded bot

[weak parrot]

Depends… if your bot does heavy load stuff then seperate processes might be beneficial. If not then handling all stuff in a single process might be easier and faster

Once you need more than one server to handle the load you won‘t be able to use internal sharding anymore anyway

[distant summit]

ok uh so is it fine if i make it traditional even though its on one host ( server )

[weak parrot]

Sure you can…

[distant summit]

alright ty... im new to sharding
so like can u show me an example of getting the information i need from other shards through IPC

[cinder flare]

Sharding: Sending messages across shards
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[distant summit]

damn... complex

[distant summit]

so if i do this... i dont have to do anything else ?

and my bot is perfectly sharded ?

[weak parrot]

It will be perfectly sharded internally, yes

But please don’t use globalThis😳 or export the client like that. Let alone both

Virtually every payload of djs has a .client property, use that in your other files

[distant summit]

i'll do that thanks

[distant summit]

ok