express-discord v0.1.1

Express Discord

An lightweight module for creating Discord interaction webhooks as express handlers.

Quick Start

Deployment

Seeing that the module exposes an express handler, you can host it on any provider you please that supports running node applications.

A recommended solution that costs very little is hosting the endpoint on Google Cloud Functions.

See Serverless Deployment for more info for cloud deployment.

Serverless Deployment

Currently instructions are only provided for GCP. Feel free to contribute to this readme if you have gotten this module working on another platform.

Google Cloud Functions

1. Create a Google Cloud Platform account at https://cloud.google.com/
2. In the Google Cloud Console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project. Go to the project selector page
3. Make sure you have billing enabled. You wont be charged anything it is only to verify that you're human. Read More
4. Enable the Cloud Functions and Cloud Build APIs for the project. Enable the APIs
5. Download and initialize the Cloud SDK. See instructions
6. Use the command below to deploy your interaction endpoint as a cloud function

gcloud functions deploy interactions --runtime nodejs12 --trigger-http --allow-unauthenticated