mattsummers/simplebot

SimpleBot

Website

The web app does not currently create the database for you. Manual action is required.

Create a database and user for the site. MySQL / MariaDB are tested working.

Execute the included /database.sql script

Edit the user's table and set the administrator account's email to yourself

Edit the config file "appsettings.json" and set your database parameters, email relay, and optionally the base URL.

Complile the app

cd SimpleBotWeb
dotnet publish -o ../publish -c Release

Start the app

cd ../publish
dotnet SimpleBotWeb.dll

Reset your password to log in for the first time. The username is 'admin'

The site can be made persistent and listen at a proper URL through a variety of means. Linux Windows

To rebuild the CSS & JS bundles if you've made changes

npm install (One time only, if you don't already have gulp installed globally)
gulp

Discord client

Install Node.js

Inside the /SimpleBotDiscord folder

npm install

Create a Discord bot

Follow the instructions to join the bot to your channel

Update /SimpleBotDiscord/constants.js with your bot's token and other data.

node app.js

The bot can be made persistent with a utility like PM2

pm2 start app.js
pm2 startup
pm2 save

Troubleshooting

Google the error messages. Fiddle with stuff until it's not broken. Kick the server until it works.