Lax. It has some Slack-like features, but a whole lot more powerful. Oh, and it's for Discord and may eventually be accessible from Messenger (Facebook), accept commands via SMS/text and email, etc.
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- and many more...
Deving this bot is pretty easy. For this project, like any other semi-professional and professional project, commit flow control is strictly enforced. Each developer should have their own publically accessible branch named yourname-develop. You should test and develop your version of the bot locally to your satisfaction. When you have a feature that you believe is ready for life, pretty your history up a bit with a git squash and submit a merge request against the develop branch. The lead devs will then accept/reject merge requests into develop. If after testing your feature in the live staging environment it is deemed worthy, submit a new merge request from develop into master (ensure that you've bumped the version appropriately in develop's package.json but only at this point). @Xunnamius will then accept/reject merge requests into master.
When you first clone the project to begin developing, don't forget to modify .pm2-process.yml and secrets.json and add a context for your environment. .pm2-process.yml is not ignored by version control, so you should not put sensitive configuration variables inside of it. If you're thinking of adding new potentially sensitive configuration variables that must exist in upstream configurations and not just locally, please discuss first. .secrets.yml is ignored by version control, so you should put sensitive configuration variables inside of it and only it.
Relevant Discord stuff that you should take a look at:
- https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/intro
- https://discord.js.org/
- https://luis.ai
- https://github.com/Microsoft/Cognitive-LUIS-Node.js
- http://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/application-declaration/
- https://github.com/tj/commander.js
To add the production bot to a Discord server, use this URL: https://discordapp.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=316786432306053121&permissions=8&scope=bot
To add the staging bot to a Discord server, use this URL: https://discordapp.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=316788662283272192&permissions=8&scope=bot
Note that there are restrictions on which servers the bot will work properly on.
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