CommandBot

1.1.3

Discord.js framework that helps you build your own Discord bot.

Key features

• command system
• auto-generated help command
• command permissions

Table of contents

• Getting started
  • Installation
  • Creating bot instance
• Bot instance
• Commands
  • All parameters
  • Command function
    • Arguments
    • Return
    • Errors
  • Command examples
    • Simple reply
    • Example with arguments
• Events
• Customization and built-in messages
  • Help message
  • System messages
• Complete example

Getting started

Installation

1. Install this package using npm

npm install commandbot@latest

2. Add the following entry to your package.json file

"type": "module"

3. Import the package

import { Bot, Command } from 'commandbot';

Creating bot instance

const bot = new Bot({
    name: "Command bot", // Name of your bot
    prefix: "!", // Prefix used to call commands
    argumentSeparator: ",", // Used to get arguments from message
    helpCommand: true, // Enable or disable the *help* command (optional)
    clientOptions: undefined, // Instance of ClientOptions from Discord.js
    token: "" // Bot token from Discord Developer Portal (optional, you can pass the token in *start* method)
});

Start your bot using

bot.start();

Optional arguments for this method

• port - number - if specified, the app will create a http server that will be listening on the specified port
• token - string - app token from Discord Developer Portal

Bot instance

The main object of this library has the following properties

• name - string - bot's name specified in the constructor
• client - Client - Discord.js client instance
• commands - CommandManager - base of the command system (see Commands)
• config - object - object that stores the login token and helpMessage value from the constructor
• messages - SystemMessageManager - object instance containing all configuration parameters for built-in messages (see Customization and built-in messages)
• on - object - object containing function that trigger on specified events (see Events)

Commands

[IMPORTANT] All commands have to be declared above the start method

All parameters

• name - string - command name (used to trigger the command)
• function - Function - function that will trigger when the commands gets called
• visible - boolean - show command in the help message (optional, defaults to true)
• description - string - command description shown in the help message (optional)
• usage - string - command usage description shown in the help message (optional)
• permissionCheck - "ALL" | "ANY" - specifies if the caller has to have all of the specified permissions or any of that (optional, default value: "ANY")
• permissions - PermissionResolvable - permissions needed to run the command (optional)
• aliases - string | string[] - other words that can trigger the command with prefix (optional)
• keywords - string | string[] - other words that can trigger the command without prefix (optional)

Command function

Arguments

• m - Message - a message object instance containing message content, author and additional informations
• a - string[] - list of arguments passed with the message (splitted with argumentSeparator)

Return

If command function returns

• string - the returned text will be sent as a reply to the command caller
• MessageEmbed - the embedded content will be sent as a standalone message

Errors

If your command throws an error, it will get logged to the console and sent to the user in a message with embedded content. The bot will not crash. (Example)

Command examples

Simple reply

1. Create a command

//CREATE COMMAND
const command = new Command({
    name: "ping",
    function: (m, a) => {
        return 'pong';
    }
});
//APPEND IT TO THE COMMANDS LIST
bot.commands.add(command);

or

bot.commands.add(new Command({
    name: "ping",
    function: (m, a) => {
        return 'pong';
    }
}));

2. Call it from Discord text channel (example prefix: "!")

!ping 

Result:
@mention, pong

Example with arguments

1. Create a command

const command = new Command({
    name: "repeat",
    function: async (m, a) => {
        if(a[0] && a[1]) {
            const count = parseInt(a[1]);
            if(!isNaN(count)) {
                for(let i = 0; i < count; i++) {
                    await m.channel.send(a[0]);
                }
                return `Repeated "${a[0]}" ${count} times`;
            }
            else {
                throw new Error('Number of messages is incorrect');
            }
        }
    }
});
bot.commands.add(command);

or

bot.commands.add(new Command({
    name: "repeat",
    function: async (m, a) => {
        if(a[0] && a[1]) {
            const count = parseInt(a[1]);
            if(!isNaN(count)) {
                for(let i = 0; i < count; i++) {
                    await m.channel.send(a[0]);
                }
                return `Repeated "${a[0]}" ${count} times`;
            }
            else {
                throw new Error('Number of messages is incorrect');
            }
        }
    }
}));

2. Call it from Discord text channel (example prefix: "!", example separator: "," [default])

!repeat test, 5

Result:
test
test
test
test
test
@caller, Repeated "test" 5 times

Events

There are 2 events defined in the on property

• message - Function - a function that will trigger for every message sent in any text channel (a Message object is passed to the first argument)
• command - Function - a function that will trigger for every message that gets recognized as a command (a Message object is passed to the first argument and a CommandMessageStructure object to the second argument)

[IMPORTANT] Do not use client.on('message') event handler! This handler is a core part of the command system.

Customization and built-in messages

All configuration parameters for messages are stored in messages property (example: bot.messages)

Help message

Configuration parameters are stored in messages.help property

• title - string - title of help message
• bottomText - string - text shown below the title
• color - ColorResolvable - color of the embedded content
• description - string - command description (equivalent of the description property in Command object)
• usage - string - equivalent of the usage property in Command object (You can pass a command name, alias or keyword with the help command to get detailed information about the specified command)

System messages

All options are stored in messages.system property

There are 3 types of system messages

• Error message (ERROR)
• Command not found message (NOT_FOUND)
• Insufficient permissions message (PERMISSION)

Each message can be customized using these properties

• title - string - title of the message
• bottomText - string - text shown below the title
• accentColor - ColorResolvable - color of the embedded content
• showTimestamp - boolean - show time and date at the bottom of the embedded content
• footer - string - footer of the embedded content

The messages.system also contains a deleteTimeout property. It specifies the time (in ms) after which a system message will be deleted. Set it to Infinity to never delete messages (default value).

Complete example

import { Bot, Command } from 'commandbot';

const bot = new Bot({
    name: "CommandBot",
    prefix: "!"
});

bot.messages.help.accentColor = '#ff0000';
bot.messages.system.NOT_FOUND.accentColor = "BLUE";

//Command triggers: !ping, !pong, pingpong
bot.commands.add(new Command({
    name: 'ping',
    aliases: 'pong',
    keywords: 'pingpong',
    function: (m, a) => {
        return 'Bot ping: ' + bot.client.ws.ping + 'ms';
    }
}));
bot.commands.add(new Command({
    name: "repeat",
    function: async (m, a) => {
        if(a[0] && a[1]) {
            const count = parseInt(a[1]);
            if(!isNaN(count)) {
                for(let i = 0; i < count; i++) {
                    await m.channel.send(a[0]);
                }
                return `Repeated "${a[0]}" ${count} times`;
            }
            else {
                throw new Error('Number of messages is incorrect');
            }
        }
    }
}));

bot.start(3000, 'TOKEN');