resourcesco / hybrid-bot

serverless/serverful hybrid discord bot

hybrid-bot

This is a serverless/serverful Discord bot in Redwood.

Discord bots need a process running, with a client connection. It is a lot like pgbouncer which provides a serverless application access to the database.

Running

First, copy .env.example to .env, and set DATABASE_URL and TEST_DATABASE_URL.

Then, create a bot on Discord with the send messages permission, and copy the bot token, and place it in .env.

To run the bot, run yarn rw build api && yarn workspace api start-bot.

How it works

The bot runs inside of the API. It is not a serverless function, but is in lib.

The Discord.js client library is installed in the API using Yarn workspaces:

yarn workspace api add discord.js

The server is in api/src/lib/bot/index.js. The following line in it loads the .env and initializes Redwood:

import '@redwoodjs/api'

This is added to scripts in api/package.json:

  "scripts": {
    "start-bot": "node dist/lib/bot"
  }

Todo

• Use the Redwood app, including serverless functions, to do something useful, and show them running neatly side-by-side!
• Document deployment of the serverless portion to Netlify/Vercel and the serverful portion to DigitalOcean/Vultr
• Add deployment to the build step
• Keep track of the bot status in the database, and let admin administrate it in the app
• Add a word about making the entire app serverful
• Investigate self-hosted serverless with OpenFaaS

Demo

There is a bot called @hybrid-bot running in the Resources.co Discord community. It will reply when you mention it.