setting up discord bot framework using discord API

.eslintrc

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+{
+    "parser": "@typescript-eslint/parser", // Specifies the ESLint parser
+    "env": {
+      "ecmaVersion": 2020 // Allows for the parsing of modern ECMAScript features
+    },
+    "extends": [
+      "plugin:@typescript-eslint/recommended", // Uses the recommended rules from the @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin
+      "prettier/@typescript-eslint", // Uses eslint-config-prettier to disable ESLint rules from @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin that would conflict with prettier
+      "plugin:prettier/recommended"
+    ]
+}

.gitignore

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+/node_modules
+.env

.prettierrc

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+{
+    "semi": true,
+    "trailingComma": "none",
+    "singleQuote": true,
+    "printWidth": 120
+}

index.ts

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+import dotenv = require('dotenv')
+dotenv.config()
+
+import Discord = require('discord.js')
+import _ = require('lodash')
+
+const NOTIF_CHANNEL_ID = "701335585272627203"
+const BOT_TOKEN: string = process.env.BOT_TOKEN
+const BOT_PREFIX = "."
+
+const client = new Discord.Client()
+
+const parseCommand = message => {
+    // extract arguments by splitting by spaces and grouping strings in quotes
+    // e.g. .ping 1 "2 3" => ['ping', '1', '2 3']
+    let args = message.content.slice(BOT_PREFIX.length).match(/[^\s"']+|"([^"]*)"|'([^']*)'/g)
+    args = _.map(args, arg => {
+      if (arg[0].match(/'|"/g) && arg[arg.length-1].match(/'|"/g)) {
+        return arg.slice(1,arg.length-1)
+      }
+      return arg
+    })
+    const firstArg = args.shift()
+    if (!firstArg) return
+    const command = firstArg.toLowerCase()
+    return { command, args }
+}
+
+const handleCommand = async (message, command, args) => {
+    switch(command) {
+        case 'ping':
+            await message.channel.send('pong')
+    }
+}
+
+const handleMessage = async message => {
+    // ignore messages without bot prefix and messages from other bots
+    if (!message.content.startsWith(BOT_PREFIX) || message.author.bot) return
+    // obtain command and args from the command message
+    const { command, args } = parseCommand(message)
+    // TODO: log commands
+
+    try {
+        await handleCommand(message, command, args)
+    } catch(e) {
+        // TODO: handle error
+    }
+}
+
+const startBot = async () => {
+    client.once('ready', async () => {
+        const notif = await client.channels.fetch(NOTIF_CHANNEL_ID) as Discord.TextChannel
+        notif.send('Codey is up!')
+    })
+
+    client.on('message', handleMessage)
+
+    client.login(BOT_TOKEN)
+}
+
+startBot()

package.json

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+{
+  "name": "csc-discord-bot",
+  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "description": "",
+  "main": "index.js",
+  "scripts": {
+    "dev": "nodemon index.ts",
+    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
+  },
+  "author": "",
+  "license": "ISC",
+  "dependencies": {
+    "discord.js": "^12.5.3",
+    "dotenv": "^8.2.0",
+    "lodash": "^4.17.21",
+    "typescript": "^4.2.4"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "@types/lodash": "^4.14.168",
+    "@types/node": "^15.0.1",
+    "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "^4.22.0",
+    "@typescript-eslint/parser": "^4.22.0",
+    "eslint": "^7.25.0",
+    "eslint-config-prettier": "^8.3.0",
+    "eslint-plugin-prettier": "^3.4.0",
+    "nodemon": "^2.0.7",
+    "prettier": "^2.2.1",
+    "ts-node": "^9.1.1"
+  }
+}