# AnIdiotsGuide/discordjs-bot-guide

The basic new coder friendly "idiot's guide", Created by Hindsight#2020 and maintained by the community.

Repository: https://github.com/AnIdiotsGuide/discordjs-bot-guide
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/discordjs-bot-guide
Homepage: https://anidiots.guide
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-07-25T20:11:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3149, "days_push": 769, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1246, forks 400 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:07.300519+00:00)

## What it is
A community-maintained beginner-friendly guide to building Discord bots with the Discord.js library (version 13). It teaches JavaScript developers how to use and extend the library through approachable tutorials.

## Use cases
- learn to build a discord bot with discord.js
- beginner tutorial for discord.js v13
- understand discord.js documentation more easily
- create my first discord bot in javascript
- guide for writing discord bot commands
- extend discord.js with custom code

## When to choose
- you are new to Discord.js and want a humanized, beginner-oriented walkthrough
- official Discord.js docs feel too advanced or hard to navigate
- you want community-maintained examples and a support Discord server

## When to avoid
- you need up-to-date coverage of the latest Discord.js versions beyond v13
- you are an experienced developer seeking exhaustive API reference material
- you need an officially endorsed or guaranteed-current resource

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: tutorials, developer-tools, chatbots
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: discordjs, discord-bot, beginner-guide, javascript, tutorial, nodejs

## Member repositories
- AnIdiotsGuide/discordjs-bot-guide (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:07.300519+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:08:00.140280+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/AnIdiotsGuide/discordjs-bot-guide (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:07.300519+00:00, sha 3e5c5cf0c07e)
  - homepage: https://anidiots.guide (fetched 2026-08-29T12:19:30.332808+00:00, sha 345432798353)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.