snowtransfer

SnowTransfer

A minimalistic rest client for the discord api

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Part of the WeatherStack

SnowTransfer is a small library specially made to only cover the REST/HTTP area of the discord api. It makes no assumptions about the rest of your stack, therefore you can use it anywhere as long as you use node 8 or higher.

Some of the things that make SnowTransfer awesome:

• No requirement for other components
• Full coverage of the discord rest api
• Well documented
• Sentry integration

General Usecase:

SnowTransfer is not your everyday library, especially compared to other libraries, it makes sense to use it when you:

• Want to build a microservice based bot, where casual discord libraries would not be suitable since they assume the availability of other components like a gateway or a cache
• Only need a simple rest client that can be wrapped easily.

Microservice Bots:

I've written a general whitepaper on the idea of microservice bots, which you can find on gist: Microservice Bot Whitepaper

Documentation:

You can find the docs at https://daswolke.github.io/SnowTransfer/

Installation:

To install SnowTransfer, make sure that you have node 8 or higher and npm installed on your computer.

Then run the following command in a terminal npm install snowtransfer

Example:

let SnowTransfer = require('snowtransfer');
let client = new SnowTransfer('DISCORD BOT TOKEN');
let request = async () => {
    let message = await client.channel.createMessage('channel id', 'hi there');
    console.log(message);
};
request().then(() => {
    // message was sent to discord
}).catch(e => {
    // an error occurred
});