Programmable Discord Bot | Part 4: Working Language | Node.JS + Discord.JS + Ohm
Part 4 of a series on making a user-programmable (users can create custom commands for it) Discord bot. In this series, I will walk through the steps of creating a Discord bot along with a custom language that can be interpreted by your bot, so that users of the bot will be able to program their own custom commands.
In this episode, I fix some issues and implement the environment and running the custom programming language. In part 3, I (tediously) coded the "semantics" part of the language for running the raw code. In this part, I implement the running of programs using the environment (which allows for temporary storage of variables, constants, external functions, etc. in the future). In part 5, I will be connecting the programming language to the Discord bot. After that, I will add type checking, safer numbers using BigIntegers, control flow (if/else, switch/case, etc.), native functions and function calls, and connecting the language to other Discord features.
Again, I haven't uploaded in a while, and again, don't expect consistent uploads. I recorded part 5 and I have the code for the other parts (but just not recorded), but I haven't edited or prepared episodes 5+. Hopefully they'll be released.... eventually.
Helpful Information on necessary programs (though you should watch the previous videos first):
This series will use Node.JS (programming language), NPM (package manager), Discord.JS (discord interface library), and Ohm (language parser/interpreter). You will also need a text editor (I will be using Atom) and some basic knowledge of the terminal/command line. If you don't have these programs or don't know how to install them yourself, I would check out these links:
https://nodejs.org/en/download/ (Node.JS)
https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm (NPM)
https://atom.io/ (Atom)
https://www.learnenough.com/command-l... (Command Line/Terminal Basics)
I go over these a bit more in the first episode, so if you are starting with a video in the middle of the series, you should at least watch the first video for information on our dependencies.
Other References:
https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.10 (Lodash documentation)
https://discord.js.org/#/ (Discord.JS)
https://github.com/harc/ohm (Ohm)
https://discordapp.com/ (Discord)
https://discordapp.com/developers/ (Discord Developers Dashboard)
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Disclaimer: Discord is its own company, product, and platform; I do not develop or maintain Discord, and I don't claim to represent them either.
