Making your first command

All of the following guide will be on the index.js file we created in the previous guide

How do command works?

Here is a basic system that how command work:

1. Player type in a command
2. The bot fetch the command
3. the bot finds the appropriate code
4. run the code

Getting stuff ready

To start, we will be using the message event. Message event emits whenever a message is sent in a server. So go ahead and type in the code below:

index.js

client.on("message", msg => {
    
})

We will be writing in line 2 of the code from now on.

Next, we will be getting message content that is sent in the server and validate it.

It is suggeted to put a prefix to the command. A prefix is what comes before a command, in the following example, L! is the prefix

index.js

if(msg.content === "L!ping"){
    msg.channel.send("Pong")//using msg.channel.send will send a message to the current channel
}

Adding more commands

To add more commands, just simply copy paste the if statement. Here is an example:

client.on("message", msg => {
if(msg.content === "L!ping"){
    msg.channel.send("Pong")//using msg.channel.send will send a message to the current channel
}
if(msg.content === "L!help"){
    msg.channel.send("Help command")//using msg.channel.send will send a message to the current channel
}
})