Member Counter

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Member Counter is a Discord bot which lets you easily display counts and other dynamic information in a channel name or topic, to get started, add this bot to your Discord server and run /setup server

Self-host

Read this guide to setup this bot using docker: https://docs.membercounter.app/guides/how-to-self-host-member-counter

Development environment

Software requirements

• Git
• NodeJS 20
• Docker

Clone the bot and install dependencies

git clone -b dev git@github.com:member-counter/bot.git member-counter-bot
cd member-counter-bot
corepack enable
pnpm install

Configure the app

Open .env with a text editor

• Set COOKIE_SECRET to something secure with at least 32 characters (or just add one more character for development purposes)
• Set DISCORD_CLIENT_ID, DISCORD_CLIENT_SECRET and DISCORD_BOT_INSTANCE_TOKEN with your development bot credentials
• Update DISCORD_OAUTH2_REDIRECT_URI as needed in the .env file and at the Discord developer portal (OAuth2 redirect URL)
• Set DATABASE_URL to mongodb://localhost:27017/memberCounter?replicaSet=rs0&directConnection=true Save this file as .env
• Set REDIS_URL to redis://localhost:6379
• Set NODE_ENV to development

Remember that you can't hot-reload this file, you must fully restart the app to apply new changes

Starting the bot and website

npm run dev:docker:up
npm run dev

Now you can start editing the code, when you save a file the app will be reloaded automatically

Do a pull request

Now just create a pull request to the dev branch, and we will review it as soon as possible

Happy coding!