Using d.js from a web backend
My specific use case is that I want to be able to perform simple actions that don't require the gateway from a web backend using a higher level library like d.js.
Is it easy to use discord.js to create a bot without the gateway enabled? I just want a nice way to send messages using a bot user without running a full bot. I would like to control some simple bot tasks from a web backend, but I'm not sure if this is easy to do or even makes sense
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- What's your exact discord.js
npm list discord.js and node node -v version?
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Yeah I'm running webhooks right now, but I need to be able to send dms and maybe in the future create threads, which are a little bit more than webhooks offer atm I believe
It will be in response to a web event, e.g. you hit a button on the web portal and it sends someone related a dm
Right now I'm allowing users to register their own webhooks to receive these events, but user feedback is that its a little heavy and doesn't do a good job looping in both parties
Its not sending just anybody a dm for no reason, they've signed up for the service and enrolled in a way that they would explicitly want to receive the dm
I might be new here but don't worry, I've been writing Discord bots almost as long as the API has existed
Appreciate the concern though, easy to misuse the API