alvesvaren / discord-ts-template

A simple template to create discord bots with typescript and slash commands

Discord bot template

Template repo: https://github.com/alvesvaren/discord-ts-template

This is a simple template to create discord bots with typescript and slash commands using discord.js. Mostly based on the official docs, but has some extra features and structure out of the box

To use:

1. Create a bot on https://discord.com/developers
2. Create repo based on template, clone it and install packages with yarn (to use another package manager, remove yarn.lock and update the scripts section of package.json )
3. Copy .env.example to .env and populate it with your bot token
4. Run the bot using yarn start

To deploy:

You can deploy this however you want, but I've added a nixpacks config to make it easy to use railway.app (referral link), or easily deploy it manually as a container using nixpacks.

File structure:

Main files

• index.ts - code to run the bot
• .env - contains environment variables that will be loaded when starting
• .env.example - template for .env
• types.ts - the types used for commands
• commands/ - where you put slash-commands for the bot
  • echo.ts - the command echo, can be copied and changed as needed