Creating a bot using a SPM project (Recommended)

Don't have a project to use DiscordKit with? These instructions are for you!

Prerequisites

macOS

• Latest version of Xcode (14.3 as of writing)

Linux

• The latest Swift toolchain (5.8 as of writing)

  • If you are on Ubuntu or Debian, we recommend installing the swift toolchain using the unofficial apt repo. For more details, see https://www.swiftlang.xyz/

  • If you prefer, you can download and manually install the official packages from https://www.swift.org/download/

• A code editor of your choosing

  • We strongly recommend using VSCode with the "Swift" Extension by "Swift Server Work Group" if you're starting out with swift, although it's not required.

Creating a Swift CLI package

1. Open a terminal window, then create a new directory for your project to live in, and then change directory into it:

mkdir MyWonderfulBot
cd MyWonderfulBot

2. Create a new swift package with the following command (Don't forget the --type=executable otherwise you won't be able to run your bot)

swift package init --type=executable

And that's it! If you're using Xcode, open the Package.swift file so that Xcode knows to load the package. If you're using a different editor, such as VSCode, open the entire folder.