This is my template for most of my discord.js bots, feel free to use!
Copy the .env.example
file to .env
cp .env.example .env
Open it with your favorite editor, Nano, Vim or Emacs.
Replace the TOKEN
in the .env
file with your own Authentication Token given to you by Discord in their portal
Replace the APPLICATION_ID
in the .env
file with the application id of the bot.
By default, .env
is git ignored (meaning it is ignored by git). If you disable this, there can be huge security risks such as
- Hackers being able to use your authentication token and using it for malicious purposes
- Bad in general
If you do not touch the .gitignore
then you should be fine. But be sure not to remove the .env
part from the .gitignore
.