Building A Discord Bot Using Discord.js

Team communication platforms are getting popular day by day, as more and more people work from home. Slack and Discord are two of the most popular team communication platforms. While Discord is focused on gamers, some functionality, such as the ability to add up to 50 members in the voice call room, make it an excellent alternative to Slack. One of the most significant advantages of using such a platform is that many tasks can be automated using bots. In this article, we’ll build a bot from scratch using JavaScript and with help from Discord.js. We’ll cover the process from building the bot up to deploying it to the cloud. Before building our bot, let’s jot down the functionality that our bot will have: