Noob Rec Bot

Introduction 👋

Noob Rec Bot is a Discord bot that helps out beginner programmers in their journey. It recommends youtube videos and other free resources. You can add it to your server from here

Inspiration 🌱

My inspiration for this bot was my struggles of finding the right resources at the beginning of my programming journey. Through this discord bot, I wish to help out beginner programmers to be able to find the resources I had trouble with.

How it was built 👷‍♂️

It was built using node.js and discord.js package. Typescript has also been used to prevent errors.

Challenges I ran into & What I learned 🧨

I ran into a lot of bugs and used node.js without anything like react.js or next.js after a long time. The project helped revive my node.js skills. Next, I hosted my bot on Heroku and again ran into problems as it was my first time using Heroku. I learned about environment variables in Heroku and how to use a custom node.js version in it. Last but the best lesson I learned and the lesson I learn every time I code, never give up.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of ✨

I am actually quite proud of making this discord bot, I am proud of solving the bugs. It's just that no matter how big or small a project when you see your program work after a thousand bugs it just fills you with joy.

What's next for Noob Rec Bot 🎯

I have decided to keep contributing to this and also made it open-source so that more people can contribute. Also, they are a lot of stuff that is hard coded which I am planning to change. I will also be adding more features to the bot like searching StackOverflow and showing programming memes.

Built With

• discord.js
• javascript
• node.js
• typescript