Manual Setup

The different packages

Currently lilybird is divided into 3 pieces.

• lilybird - The core and all you need to make your bot.
• @lilybird/jsx - JSX components for lilybird using react-jsx.
• @lilybird/handlers - Command and Event handlers for lilybird.

There is also @lilybird/create which is the boilerplate generator used in the previous page.

Creating the bot

Creating the bot with lilybird is a trivial task.

index.ts

import { createClient, Intents } from "lilybird";

await createClient({
  token: process.env.TOKEN,
  intents: [Intents.GUILDS],
  listeners: {/* your listeners */}
})

Adding types to process.env

In case you are using TypeScript we highly encourage adding proper types to your process.env.

This can be done by creating a globals.d.ts file on the root of your project.

bun

globals.d.ts

declare module "bun" {
  interface Env {
    TOKEN: string;
    // Other env variables
  }
}

node

globals.d.ts

declare global {
  namespace NodeJS {
    interface ProcessEnv {
      TOKEN: string;
      // Other env variables
    }
  }
}

And then addint the following to your tsconfig.json.

Caution

Setting types on the compiler options will make it so TypeScript wont search for @types packages.

You can read more about it on the TypeScript handbook

tsconfig.json

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "types": [
      "./globals"
    ]
  }
}