discord.js - Imagine an app•12mo ago

ShardingManager doesnt work with .ts files

I am trying to make a discord bot with typescript that uses shards, however the sharding manager crashes when I pass in a ts file like so:

const manager = new ShardingManager("./src/bot.ts", {
  totalShards: "auto",
  token,
});

const manager = new ShardingManager("./src/bot.ts", {
  totalShards: "auto",
  token,
});

here is my tsconfig:

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "lib": ["ESNext"],
        "module": "ESNext",
        "moduleResolution": "node",
        "target": "ESNext",
        "outDir": "dist",
        "sourceMap": false,
        "esModuleInterop": true,
        "experimentalDecorators": true,
        "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
        "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
        "skipLibCheck": true,
        "skipDefaultLibCheck": true,
        "resolveJsonModule": true,
        "importHelpers": true
    },
    "include": ["src", "environment.d.ts"],
    "exclude": ["node_modules", "**/*.spec.ts"]
}

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "lib": ["ESNext"],
        "module": "ESNext",
        "moduleResolution": "node",
        "target": "ESNext",
        "outDir": "dist",
        "sourceMap": false,
        "esModuleInterop": true,
        "experimentalDecorators": true,
        "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
        "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
        "skipLibCheck": true,
        "skipDefaultLibCheck": true,
        "resolveJsonModule": true,
        "importHelpers": true
    },
    "include": ["src", "environment.d.ts"],
    "exclude": ["node_modules", "**/*.spec.ts"]
}

Is there any way to get this to work?

8 Replies

d.js toolkit•12mo ago

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KevinWho•12mo ago

discord.js@14.11.0 node version: v18.14.0

space•12mo ago

You want to refer to the javascript file in your dist folder there, as that's what node can work with.

KevinWho•12mo ago

What do you mean? ohh ok, but that means I need to compile it every time Is there some way I can make it autocompile before getting there?

space•12mo ago

I don't think you can, but you are already transpiling your sharding manager file, aren't you? You can pass the --watch flag to tsc to automatically retranspile when changes are detected. https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/compiler-options.html

KevinWho•12mo ago

hmm alright, I mean im using nodemon, it would be good if I could hook just add this on

space•12mo ago

I'm not sure how that would work in combination, but maybe you can let it watch the dist folder, which tsc writes into? jynEHEH

KevinWho•12mo ago

hmm ok ill keep looking, not sure, I moved to tsc-watch and ended up with this:

const manager = new ShardingManager("./dist/bot.js", {
  totalShards: in_beta_test_mode ? 1 : "auto",
  token,
});

const manager = new ShardingManager("./dist/bot.js", {
  totalShards: in_beta_test_mode ? 1 : "auto",
  token,
});

and

"dev": "tsc-watch --onSuccess \"node dist/index.js\""

"dev": "tsc-watch --onSuccess \"node dist/index.js\""

so it just compiles it, then runs it.

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