My discord bot simply wont turn on

Code Help - Discord
1

So, my bot doesnt turn on it also doesnt send a message in the terminal that he is online i cant see any bugs in the terminal either he worked just fine and suddenly stopped working. also when made a new project the bot also wouldnt start

const Discord = require(‘discord.js’);

const bot = new Discord.Client();

const token = ‘My discord token’;

var version = ‘1.0.1’;

const PREFIX = ‘$’;

bot.on(‘ready’, () =>{

console.log('i am ready!');

})

bot.on(‘message’, message =>{

let args  = message.content.substring(PREFIX.length).split(" ");

switch(args[0]){

    case 'ping' :

        message.channel.send('pong');

        break;

        case 'developer,Developer' :

            message.channel.send('Revenge#6897 add me')

            break;

            case 'info' :

                if(args[1] === 'version'){

                    message.channel.send('Version'+ version);

                }else{

                        message.channel.send('invalid args')

                    }

                        break;

                    

                }



}

)

2

Assuming it must be a problem with the discord.js, have you tried running npm i discord js in the console of your project?

3

Also, I believe I had a similar issue to this sometime last month with one of my bots in the past, which seems to work fine again the next day.

4

Ive just tried this and it also doesnt seem to work
other bots that i made stopped working too
i dont know if this makes any difference but im making the bot in visual studio code and when i type ‘’ node . ‘’ to start it it doesnt become yellow like it did before, once again i dont know if that changes anything since this is my first discord bot that im making (overall first thing that im trying to code)

5

It seems that you don’t have bot.login() also use .env for storeing TOKEN safely!

6

Thats bot.login() was the solution i have no idea why it let me start the bot earlier without it, also mind telling me how .env works?

7

You should have a file called .env

You want to add a field called TOKEN and put your token as the value (no “”)

Then, your bot.login line needs to be this: bot.login(process.env.TOKEN)

8

Thanks i will do some research on that matter, for now i will just try to make some simple commands, i want the bot to be able to do like everything that you need, reaction roles, role management with custom commands and all that good stuff