Installing discord.js

To install discord.js, you need a few dependencies.

Warning

When installing with any of these methods, you’ll encounter some errors. This is because an optional dependency isn’t working properly, but discord.js should still work fine.


Windows


Your Visual Studio installation ideally has to be recent, but you can try installing without it first. You can use Express, Community, Enteprise or any others apart from VS Code.

  • You (obviously) need NodeJS. Node 4 or higher is recommended.

After you have installed these things, to install just run: npm install --save --msvs_version=2015 discord.js to install the latest version of discord.js for your project.

Additional Audio Support

  • Install ffmpeg and add it to your PATH.

Linux (Debian-based)


  • You (obviously) need NodeJS Linux. Node 4 or higher is recommended.
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
$ npm install --save discord.js

Additional Audio Support

$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

Note: Ubuntu 14.04 needs to do:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ffmpeg