🤖 Discord Bot Template

Production-Ready Discord.js Starter

A clean, scalable and production-ready Discord.js v14 starter template.

Built to help developers create modern Discord bots using a modular architecture and development best practices.

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🌸 Overview

The Discord Bot Template is an open-source starter project created and maintained by The Server Boutique.

Instead of beginning every Discord bot from scratch, this template provides a clean project structure, organised folders and modern development practices that make new projects faster to build and easier to maintain.

Whether you're creating a small community bot or a large production application, this template provides a strong foundation.

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✨ Features

• 🤖 Discord.js v14
• ⚡ Slash command ready
• 📂 Modular folder structure
• 🧩 Event-driven architecture
• ⚙️ Environment variable support
• 📝 Configuration system
• 📜 Logging support
• 🛡️ Best-practice project structure
• 📚 Beginner-friendly organisation
• ♻️ Easy to extend and customise
• 🧪 Built with testing in mind
• 📖 Fully documented

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📂 Project Structure

discord-bot-template/
│
├── docs/
├── examples/
├── src/
│   ├── commands/
│   ├── config/
│   ├── events/
│   ├── handlers/
│   ├── utils/
│   └── index.js
│
├── tests/
├── .env.example
├── CHANGELOG.md
├── CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
├── CONTRIBUTING.md
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── SECURITY.md
└── package.json

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🚀 Getting Started

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/theserverboutique/discord-bot-template.git

Install dependencies

npm install

Rename

.env.example

to

.env

Add your bot token and configuration values.

Start the bot

npm start

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📦 Included Components

Component	Description
🤖 Slash Commands	Ready for command development
⚡ Events	Modular event loading
⚙️ Configuration	Centralised configuration files
📂 Handlers	Clean loading architecture
🧰 Utilities	Shared helper functions
🌱 Environment	Secure .env configuration
📜 Logging	Structured console logging
🛡️ Best Practices	Clean project organisation

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🎯 Project Goals

This template is designed to:

• Encourage clean project architecture.
• Reduce repetitive setup.
• Provide a scalable starting point.
• Follow modern Discord.js conventions.
• Help developers learn good project structure.
• Remain lightweight and easy to customise.

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🗺️ Roadmap

🚧 Current

• Slash command handler
• Event handler
• Configuration system
• Environment variables
• Basic utilities
• Logging
• Documentation

🔮 Planned

• Permission framework
• Command cooldown system
• Database examples
• Component handler
• Error management improvements
• TypeScript edition
• CI workflows
• Expanded documentation

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🧪 Development

This repository is intended to become the recommended starting point for projects built by The Server Boutique.

Future releases will continue improving scalability, documentation and developer experience while remaining beginner friendly.

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions, bug reports and feature suggestions are always welcome.

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a pull request.

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📄 License

Released under the MIT License.

See LICENSE for full details.

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🌸 About The Server Boutique

The Server Boutique is a boutique Discord development studio specialising in:

• 🤖 Custom Discord bots
• 🏡 Discord server design
• ⚙️ Community automation
• 📦 Open-source developer tools
• 📚 Documentation and community resources

If this template helps you, consider supporting future development or exploring our services.

☕

Ko-fi

https://ko-fi.com/theserverboutique

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🌸 Built with care by The Server Boutique

Beautiful communities • Thoughtful systems • Production-ready code