It includes the well-known concept of chat-bots where a chat bot can subscribe to a bunch of different events - incoming messages, users joining and leaving channels - and react with the needed action, be it a greeting of newcomers, detecting the trolls and kicking them out, or making some writes to an external database.Īt the moment of writing, there are three discord-integration libraries available in deno land: coward, dinocord, and discordeno. As a server administrator, you can control what members can or can’t do by utilising the flexible system of roles and permissions.įrom the developer’s perspective, Discord provides a flexible API to handle everything programmatically.

Each registered user can be a member of multiple servers (guilds), chat in channels and directly with channel members, manage friend lists, and create their own servers. Discord is an ultra-popular messaging service, initially targeted on gamers, by thanking to super-user-friendly interface and rich functionality it became a shelter for a lot of different communities - like international software developer communities, Na’Vi language learners, and even Deno official communities. I am not sure that this section is needed, but if you are like me barely familiar with Discord, let us review the basics. In this article, we’ll use Deno and Discordeno library to create a simple discord bot.

In a nutshell, Deno is a new secure JavaScript and TypeScript runtime that supports importing modules from URLs (npm is no longer needed), has a flexible permission system, modern promise-based APIs and many more goodies.Įven though this is the very first stable release, there are lots of modules written by enthusiasts already available for us to use. A few weeks ago, Deno was released, and I couldn’t resist to try it out.

Dyno bot in discord