The fastest way to build Discord apps (with hosted Node.js and Postgres)
Gadget has been updated, and this tutorial may not work without some modifications. See the blog post for the most up-to-date version of this tutorial: https://gadget.dev/blog/building-disc...
Riley builds Discord's "Getting started" app using Gadget in under 5 minutes, then explains some of the advantages of using Gadget to build Discord apps, including a hosted and scaled Node backend and Postgres database, and an auto-generated CRUD API for custom data models.
Follow along using: https://discord-getting-started.gadge...
Discord's "Getting Started" guide (along with sample code): https://discord.com/developers/docs/g...
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:23 Step 1 - Creating an app (+ installation)
02:03 Step 2 - Running your app
04:05 Step 3 - Handling interactivity
05:02 Step 4 - Adding message components (register commands)
05:40 Done! Play rock, paper, scissors!
06:05 Gadget details - Postgres and Node backend
08:20 Deploying to production + outro