The Discord Bot Framework

I’m happy to announce the release of my Discord Bot Framework. A tool that I’ve spent a considerable amount of time working on to help people build and deploy Discord Bots quickly within AWS.

Let me first start off by saying I’ve never released a product. I’ve run a service business and I’m a consultant but I’ve never been a product developer. This release marks my first codebase that I’ve packaged and put together for developers and hobbyists to utilize.

So let’s talk about what this framework does. First and foremost it is not a fully working bot. There are pre-requisites that you must accomplish. The framework holds some example code for commands and message context responses which should be enough to get any Python developer started on building their bot. The framework also includes all of the required Terraform to deploy the bot within AWS.

When you launch the Terraform it will build a Docker image for you and deploy that image to ECR as well as launch the container within AWS Fargate. All of this lives behind a load balancer so that you can scale your bot’s resources as needed although I haven’t seen a Discord bot ever require that many resources!

I plan on supporting this project personally and providing support via email for the time being for anyone who purchases the framework.

Roadmap:
– GitHub Actions template for CI/CD
– More Bot example code for commands
– Bolt on packages for new functionality

I hope that this framework helps people get started on building bots for Discord. If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me at anytime!

The Discord Bot Framework Product Page