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What's the point of having a "container" object exported which consists of client and other stuff?

What I found kind of unique in sapphirejs is that it uses an object called

container

container

which consists of client, stores, etc. But how is that better than just exporting client and stores directly? For example, instead of using

this.container.client

this.container.client

in command classes, why is not better to just use

this.client

this.client

Solution

this.container

this.container

(or

container

container

for that matter) is an object that can be extended by plugins and bots. In base

@sapphire/pieces

@sapphire/pieces

it's an object with only the

PieceStore

PieceStore

, but

@sapphire/framework

@sapphire/framework

augments it by adding

client: SapphireClient

client: SapphireClient

in the same way as plugin register their augmentations.

For example, if you use

@sapphire/plugin-api

@sapphire/plugin-api

, you'd have access to

container.api

container.api

. In fact, some plugins do not require discord.js or even Sapphire due to this system, which allows some projects to be library and/or framework agnostic. Another advantage to this approach is that we do not pollute the discord.js

Client

Client

class with a lot of properties.

For example in my bot, I have a lot of properties:

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What's the point of having a "container" object exported which consists of client and other stuff?

What I found kind of unique in sapphirejs is that it uses an object called

container

container

which consists of client, stores, etc. But how is that better than just exporting client and stores directly? For example, instead of using

this.container.client

this.container.client

in command classes, why is not better to just use

this.client

this.client

Solution

this.container

this.container

(or

container

container

for that matter) is an object that can be extended by plugins and bots. In base

@sapphire/pieces

@sapphire/pieces

it's an object with only the

PieceStore

PieceStore

, but

@sapphire/framework

@sapphire/framework

augments it by adding

client: SapphireClient

client: SapphireClient

in the same way as plugin register their augmentations.

For example, if you use

@sapphire/plugin-api

@sapphire/plugin-api

, you'd have access to

container.api

container.api

Client

Client

class with a lot of properties.

For example in my bot, I have a lot of properties:

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