ts-node giving issues with Sapphire (edit: DO NOT USE TS-NODE)
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TL;DR: Do not use
We very strongly discourage using
Which means to read some code, dump it in an
A discord bot is not that.
A Discord bot sets up a permanent websocket connection to the discord server and connects to the rest gateway.
There is read yes, but no eval, no print, and no loop.
So what should you use instead?
The most ideal way is to just use the
You would open 2 terminal tabs, 1 in which you run
This is in particular the most ideal way, because Discord has a limit to the amount of times you can login with your bot, or register commands, per day.
Constantly logging in over and over again due to an auto-restarting process will get you close to that limit very quickly and once you exceed it, your development will be halted entirely for the current day.
However, this can be quite tedious so a great package to use instead is
ts-nodetsc-watchWe very strongly discourage using
ts-nodets-nodeREPLRead Eval Print LoopWhich means to read some code, dump it in an
eval()A discord bot is not that.
A Discord bot sets up a permanent websocket connection to the discord server and connects to the rest gateway.
There is read yes, but no eval, no print, and no loop.
So what should you use instead?
The most ideal way is to just use the
watchtsctsc --watchnode dist/index.jsYou would open 2 terminal tabs, 1 in which you run
tsc --watchThis is in particular the most ideal way, because Discord has a limit to the amount of times you can login with your bot, or register commands, per day.
Constantly logging in over and over again due to an auto-restarting process will get you close to that limit very quickly and once you exceed it, your development will be halted entirely for the current day.
However, this can be quite tedious so a great package to use instead is
tsc-watch
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