Question for "Event Setup"

[git-cameronbryce]

For the eventsPath and related documentation, I am having trouble making my file immediately run, upon startup without an event listener shown in the docs being triggered. Will show below my normal setup, with a regular command handler. What would I need to make this work with CommandKit in TS by chance? Thank you for your time and efforts.

const { Events } = require('discord.js'); 

module.exports = {
  name: Events.ClientReady,
  once: true,
  execute(client) {
    console.log('Immediately runs w/o anything triggered');
    // Looking to have this work with CommandKit.
  },
};

https://commandkit.js.org/guide/event-file-setup

[notunderctrl]

Hello.

I'm a bit confused when you mention "immediately run". Do you want to:

1. Have some code run without any event (including "ready") be triggered.
2. Have some code run when the bot has started up.

Here's how you can achieve both of the above:

For 1:

To run code without any event being triggered (including "ready"), CommandKit doesn't really provide any way to handle this situation since it's out of the scope of handling commands/events with Discord.js. You can achieve this pretty easily however by placing your code anywhere before logging in to your client/bot.

// File: src/index.ts

// ... rest of your code

function main() {
  console.log('This will run immediately when the app starts without waiting for the bot to start up');
}

main();

client.login('your-token-here');

For 2:

To run code immediately after your bot has gone online, you can make use of the "ready" event provided by Discord.js. If you're trying to handle this event using CommandKit:

1. Create a folder inside your "events" folder with the name of the event - in this case it's "ready".
2. Inside the new "ready" folder, create a file (you can name it anything you want) that will export a default function:

   // File: src/events/ready/on-startup.ts
   
   import type { Client } from 'discord.js';
        
   export default function (client: Client<true>) {
     console.log('This will run immediately after the bot has gone online');
   }

Let me know if this solves your issue.

[git-cameronbryce]

Thank you for your reply. The second option you displayed, was the solution for me.