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Creating a Discord bot with Bun
Discord bots perform actions in response to application commands. There are 3 types of commands accessible in different interfaces: the chat input, a message's context menu (top-right menu or right-clicking in a message), and a user's context menu (right-clicking on a user).
To get started you can use the interactions template:
bun create discord-interactions my-interactions-bot
cd my-interactions-bot
If you don't have a Discord bot/application yet, you can create one here (https://discord.com/developers/applications/me).
Invite bot to your server by visiting https://discord.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=<your_application_id>&scope=bot%20applications.commands
Afterwards you will need to get your bot's token, public key, and application id from the application page and put them into .env.example file
Then you can run the http server that will handle your interactions:
$ bun install
$ mv .env.example .env
$ bun run.js # listening on port 1337
Discord does not accept an insecure HTTP server, so you will need to provide an SSL certificate or put the interactions server behind a secure reverse proxy. For development, you can use ngrok/cloudflare tunnel to expose local ports as secure URL.