Developing

With Octocord, developing your bot becomes really simple.

Dev Guild

When developing, it is recommended to register all commands as a guild command and use global commands when deploying to production. This is because guild commands update instantly.

You can configure the dev guild in your config, it is recommended to keep this value in your .env file.

export const config = {
  // the id of your dev guild
  devGuildId: process.env.DEV_GUILD_ID,
};

Starting Developing Mode

Make sure your package.json has the following scripts defined:

"scripts": {
  "dev": "octocord",
  "start": "octocord start",
  "build": "octocord build",
  "deploy": "octocord deploy"
},

You can run the following command to start developing mode:

npm run dev

Once started, your bot's code will be built and your commands will be registered in your dev guild, or globally if you did not specify a devGuildId.

Now, if you make a change within your code, Octocord will automatically rebuild your bot and restart it.

If you make a change within a command's meta.js file, Octocord will automatically update the registered command for you.