Creating My First Bot Using Replit But Always Error Discord.js

I have just started Discord.JS on Replit. It followed FreeCodeCamp's Tutorial on https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-discord-bot-with-javascript-nodejs/ But when I runned th

Solution 1:

Discord.js v13 requires Node.js v16.6. Replit only directly supports Node.js v12.16.1 (at the time of writing).

When using an older version of Node.js, you may see errors such as

• Error: Cannot find module 'node:events'
• ReferenceError: AbortController is not defined
• SyntaxError: Unexpected token '?'

However, you can install a newer Node.js binary using the node npm package.

Here's a minimal setup:

package.json

{"name":"node.js-v16-on-replit-demo","version":"0.0.1","dependencies":{"discord.js":"^13.2.0","node":"^16.10.0"}}

.replit

run = "npx node ."

index.js

constDiscord = require("discord.js")

// your code...

You can try this out with this demo repl.

If you like, you can define a start npm script:

package.json

{// ..."scripts":{"start":"node ."}}

.replit

run = 'npm start'

There are also plenty of resources online about Node.js v16 on Replit.