Basic Application

This guide details the steps taken to create your first discord application!

1. Create a new Application.luau file

2. Using the DiscordLuau submodule, require the submodule and set up a basic client object

   local DiscordLuau = require("DiscordLuau")
   
   local DiscordSettings = DiscordLuau.SettingsBuilder.new("<DISCORD_TOKEN>")
   local DiscordClient = DiscordLuau.DiscordClient.new(DiscordSettings)
   
   DiscordClient:connectAsync():after(function()
      print("We've connected to the Discord Websocket! 🚀")
   end)

3. Connect to the ‘Ready’ discord event:

   DiscordClient.eventManager.onReady:connect(function()
      print(`{DiscordClient.discordUser.username} is online! 🎉`)
   end)

4. Run the Application

   lune run application.luau

5. if all goes well, your application should connect to the Discord API and print the above messages!

Caution

In the case the bot fails to connect, please check that you’ve toggled your applications intents correctly!

If you need to modify the intents of the Bot from Luau, you can do so with:

local DiscordSettings = DiscordLuau.SettingsBuilder.new("<DISCORD_TOKEN>", DiscordLuau.IntentsBuilder.fromDefault())

Complete Code

local DiscordLuau = require("DiscordLuau")

local DiscordSettings = DiscordLuau.SettingsBuilder.new("<DISCORD_TOKEN>")
local DiscordClient = DiscordLuau.DiscordClient.new(DiscordSettings)

DiscordClient.eventManager.onReady:connect(function()
   print("We've connected to the Discord Websocket! 🚀")
end)

DiscordClient:connectAsync():after(function()
   print("We've connected to the Discord Websocket! 🚀")
end)