Sample discord bot response
Sample discord bot response

Build Your First Discord GIF BOT and Deploy

A Bot that send GIF replies and is deployed on Heroku for free

Shelcia David
The Startup
Published in
7 min readDec 30, 2020

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Pre-requisites :

  • Some knowledge of Javascript
  • Node installed on your PC or laptop
  • Discord Account (plus you should have servers created by you)
  • VS Code or your favourite code Editor
  • GIT installed
  • Heroku Account

Step 1: Setting up in Discord Developer Portal

Go to discord developer portal (link here )

Navigate to Applications in Side Menu( you may have prompted to log in). You will see the screen something like this. Now all you got to do is create an application by clicking the button near your profile pic.

Discord Developer Portal

Enter any name you want it for your application I am going to name in GIF Bot App and then click CREATE.

You will see something like this just below.

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Shelcia David
The Startup

MS in Information @ UW Madison || Ex Senior Software Developer @NASDAQ. I write articles about Web apps, UX and whatever I find interesting. www.shelcia-dev.me