Event handling

Guilded.TS takes advantage of Node.js' event emitter, making it possible to handle events whenever they occur. Your main file already does some event handling with the ready event which is emitted only once whenever the client is ready to use.

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client.once should only be used on events such as ready as it should only run once. Consider using client.on on events such as messageCreate as you want to handle them more than once.

Another common event used is messageCreate which is emitted whenever a message is created inside a chat channel. We can use this event to create a simple command system.

const prefix = '!';

client.on('messageCreate', async (message) => {
    if (!message.content?.startsWith(prefix)) return;
    const [commandName, ...args] = message.content.slice(prefix.length).split(/\s+/);
    switch (commandName) {
        case 'ping':
            message.reply({ content: 'Pong!' });
            break;
        case 'echo':
            message.reply({ content: args.join(' ') });
            break;
    }
});