How does the bot launch process work? That is, how can my computer accept requests from the discord server? Is it possible to make a discord bot in the form of a web application for example on "Express"? I know that the question is slightly off topic discord.js, but I would like to know about the internal structure of the library.
#How bot run works?
marsh sky
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You need a gateway connection over a websocket to be open to receive events from discord. If you just want an interaction-only bot you can have it run as a web application, but if you want a bot user (which discord.js always has) to get other events you need a permanent connection
marsh sky
You need a gateway connection over a websocket to be open to receive events from...
What do you mean: "interaction only bot"?
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marsh sky
Oh, how I run it like web application?
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It only replies to / or context menu commands as well as buttons/modals. But doesn’t use other events, isn’t logged in to the gateway
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Oh, how I run it like web application?
By using a different framework than discord.js. discord-interactions is one for example
marsh sky
It only replies to / or context menu commands as well as buttons/modals. But doe...
But I also can implement send messages, read chat history, create roles etc, but only use API directly
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But I also can implement send messages, read chat history, create roles etc, but...
Yes, you just can’t do it by reacting to any other events than interactionCreate
marsh sky
By using a different framework than discord.js. discord-interactions is one for ...
Have you written anything on this before? I don't understand how discord resend request to my computer. Do I need to establish a websocket connection with the Discord gateway?
Like on this module
Discord-interactions
Like, how this will look if I use Express for example?
I would be very grateful to you
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Have you written anything on this before? I don't understand how discord resend ...
No, that’s the idea. You don’t need a gateway connection, you only need to have a HTTP endpoint that discord can send the interactions to, set that endpoint in developer portal
