Creating Your Bot Files

Welcome! We're now starting to create code for your bot. We already have config.json and .env, and we've set up version control with git.

Creating index.js

index.js

// Import Client from yurba.js
const { Client } = require("yurba.js");

// Load config
const config = require('./config.json');

// Load `.env`
require('dotenv').config()

// Create client (bot) with your token and prefix
const client = new Client(process.env.YURBA_TOKEN, {prefix: config.prefix});

// Register first command - ping
client.registerCommand('ping', {}, (message, args) => {
    message.reply(`pong!, ${message.Author.Name}`);
});

// First event - ready
// When the bot starts, it will log 'Ready!' to the console
client.once('ready', () => {
    console.log('Ready!');
});

// Initialize the bot (start it)
client.init();

config.js

{
    "prefix": "/"
}

.env

YURBA_TOKEN=YOUR-TOKEN-HERE

package.json

{
  "name": "my-bot",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "description": "bot for guide",
  "keywords": [
    "bot",
    "yurbajs",
    "guide-bot"
  ],
  "license": "ISC",
  "author": "RastGame",
  "type": "commonjs",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "dotenv": "^17.2.0",
    "yurba.js": "^0.1.9"
  }
}

Add start script

{
  "name": "my-bot",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "description": "bot for guide",
  "keywords": [
    "bot",
    "yurbajs",
    "guide-bot"
  ],
  "license": "ISC",
  "author": "RastGame",
  "type": "commonjs",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node index.js", 
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "dotenv": "^17.2.0",
    "yurba.js": "^0.1.9"
  }
}

Start the bot

npm

npm start

yarn

yarn start

pnpm

pnpm start

bun

bun start

After starting, you should see something like this:

λ ~/Projects/yurbajs/examples/guide-bot main* ❯❯ pnpm start

> my-bot@0.0.1 start /Projects/yurbajs/examples/guide-bot
> node index.js

[dotenv@17.2.0] injecting env (1) from .env (tip: ⚙️  enable debug logging with { debug: true })
Ready!

Let's execute our first command /ping

First achievement!

Creating your bot's first command