Writing a Discord Bot with Node.js, Redis, and the Illuminati

In this episode, Guy illuminates how to write a Discord Bot with Node.js, store state for it in Redis, and even use RedisBloom to deduplicate messages. All part of his plan for world domination! Fnord.

▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 – Open
00:25 – What We’re Building
01:25 – Setting Up a Discord Server
04:40 – Setting Up a Discord Bot
06:58 – Add the Bot to the Server
09:10 – Setting Up the Node.js Project
12:21 – The Simplest of All Bots
16:30 – Testing the Simple Bot
18:50 – A Bot That Uses Redis
29:01 – Testing the Redis Bot
32:40 – Adding Bloom Filters
37:40 – Testing the Bloom Filter
39:42 – Closing
40:26 – Fnord

▬ Links ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Guy’s code → https://github.com/redislabs-training/discordia-bot

Discord.js → https://discord.js.org/
Discord → https://discord.com/
Discord Developers → https://discord.com/developers/applications

Join *our* Discord server → https://discord.gg/redis

Redis Bitmaps Explained → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fmyc5lkwD4
How to: Use Bloom Filters in Redis → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9_wrhdbSC4

Need a Redis cluster now? Sign up for a free Redis Cloud Essentials account → https://bit.ly/2wasiCa

RedisInsight → https://redislabs.com/redis-enterprise/redis-insight/
Redis University → https://university.redislabs.com/
Redis Labs → https://redislabs.com/