The (recommended) instructions on how to get Trivia Bot up and running in your Discord server are outlined below:
Prerequisites: You must have Node and NPM installed since this is a Node.js project. Please see this website for installation instructions before proceeding.
- Fork this repository
- Create a clone of your fork so that you can make changes
git clone <your fork's URL>.git
- Once you've done that, navigate to the root of the
Trivia-Botdirectory on your local machine (or wherever you cloned your fork) and create a.envfile. In here, you need to create an enviornment variable like so:
BOT_TOKEN=<your bot token>
If you don't have a bot token, I recommend following the directions here. The author of this article did a fantastic job in explaining the process of getting a token and navigating the Discord Developer Portal (which is very simple and painless! Shout out to the Discord team for making this experience seamless!)
Replace <your bot token> with your bot token and get rid of the < >'s. Please gitignore this file when pushing your work in a PR. Your bot token should be known by no one other than yourself!
Make sure to run
npm install
to install all the project's required dependancies!
You can run your bot with npm start but if you want it to automatically refresh every time you save, you can use npm run dev
Please install the prettier extension and make sure to use our config.
Please comment on any issue you'd like to take or open an issue to add something I haven't detailed out already. I'll decide later if its worth doing and will let you know. Or, open a PR with whatever you've done even if its not already fleshed out in an issue. TLDR; when in doubt, open a PR!