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Migrating your instance to 2.x

This guide is for people who were running their own 1.x instance of the bot.

This bot now runs Discord.js v13, which requires Node.js 16.6.0. On some platforms (older distros, cloud hosting, etc...) this may be problematic. Something like https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm can make the transition easier.

  1. Get the updated bot code (either git pull origin master if you cloned with git (which you should) or download master as a zip).
  2. Make a copy of your old database
    • Running as a service: probably /srv/discord/rolebot.sqlite3
    • Running in dev-mode: dev.sqlite3
  3. Replace bot token file with a config.json file that looks like this: 
    {
  "token": "<your token here>",
  "app_id": "<your bot application ID here>"
}
    • Running as a service: Replace /etc/discord/ReactionRoleBot/token with /etc/discord/ReactionRoleBot/config.json
    • Running in dev-mode: Some local token file
  4. Install updated dependencies: npm ci
  5. Register slash commands: npm run register path/to/your/config.json
  6. Update your database: npm run knex migrate:latest
  7. Start the bot
    • Running as a service: update reactionrolebot.service (see reference implementation). Restart service systemctl restart reactionrolebot.service.
    • Running in dev-mode: npm start path/to/your/config.json