The basics

We need a few prerequisites:

• A computer running any

  • You need sudo or doas privileges, or access to the root account

  • If you want to run WildBeast 24/7, you should get a

Installation

Installing Node.js

1. Run the following code in your terminal:

   (Not a fan of curl <url> | bash -? You can do this too.)

2. Install Node.js with the following command:

Installing Postgres

Postgres is available to install by default on Ubuntu, just run the following code in your terminal:

We need to do some extra steps to prepare Postgres for use:

1. Create a new user for WildBeast to use:

   The new user does not need to be a superuser, and can be called whatever you want.

2. Finally, create a new database:

   (We used wildbeast here as the database user, change it if you used something else in the previous step)

Setting up

Getting the code

Clone the code and install the required modules:

Setting the options

Open the example configuration file in nano and enter your details:

When you're done, save the file as .env

Starting the database

Before we can start, we need to initialize the database. Run the following code:

Testing it out!

Now for the fun part, testing to see if it worked!

Start WildBeast for the first time with the following command:

You should see something similar to the following if everything went well

19:11:41 [info] Gateway: Client ready

19:11:41 [info] Gateway - shard 0: Gateway ready

Test if your bot works by running the /ping command

Next steps

Making a new service

Start creating a new service:

Copy and paste the following example:

Controlling the service

Starting

Stopping

Start on boot

To undo:

Restarting