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Develop new JavaScript programming skills by learning to create bots for the popular Discord messaging service. Using Discord.js – a powerful Node.js module made specifically to interact with Discord’s API – you’ll learn how to make a Discord bot that is able to perform a variety of administrative functions and pull data from third-party APIs. Regardless of your programming goals, the skills you master here will allow you to not only build many different kinds of Discord bots, but give you numerous, useful techniques for building generalized web apps with Node.js.
You will learn how to:
- Import Discord.js into projects
- Set up bots on Discord servers
- Create “listeners” to detect specific messages
- Perform administrative commands based on messages
- Use a third-party API to get crypto exchange rates
- Deal with and use embedded messages
… and more!