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¶
- You need Visual Studio and Python 2.7.
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.
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