❤️ Javacord and Velen Example Bot

This is a full-fledged example of a Javacord Discord bot that utilizes Velen as a framework paired with Redis for a per-server prefix and blacklist. This is written for Javacord v3.3.2 and Velen v2.0.0, you may use your own database paradigm like MongoDB or MySQL if you like.

🥰 Requirements

• Gradle
• Redis (Data Persistence should be enabled).
• Java 11

😊 Build

You can build this application through the application plugin with Gradle:

./gradlew build

🍔 Environmental Variables

• redis_host: The host name of the Redis server.
• redis_port: The port of the Redis server.
• redis_pass: The password of the Redis database.
• token: The Discord bot token.

🎆 Demonstrations

The bot has several basic functions and commands, but the main point of this example bot is to demonstrate the following:

• Creating a Help Command with Velen.
• Utilizing Fuzzy Command Suggestion with Velen.
• Creating Commands with Velen.
• Utilizing Gradle with Application plugin instead of Fatjars.
• Logging with Logback and SLF4J.
• Utilizing Redis with Velen.
• Per-server Prefixes (Persistent) with Velen.
• Persistent Blacklist with Velen.

💡 Commands

Here are the basic commands implemented:

• Avatar command: To get the avatar of a user or yourself.
• Help command: The starting point of the bot, shows all the commands categories.
• Ping command: To get the latency of the bot from the server to Discord.
• Blacklist command: An owner-only command that is used to blacklist users from using the bot.
• Prefix command: To change or get the prefix used by the server.

🍅 Credits

• Velen: The framework used to quickly create this bot.
• Javacord: The library used by Velen and the bot to communicate with Discord, etc.
• Redis: The database that is being used by this bot.
• Jedis: The database driver that is being used by this bot.
• Logback: The logger used by this bot.
• SLF4J: The logging API used by the bot.