Discord Bot with Slash Commands, Node.js, and Typescript deployable to Heroku

Guide

A setup guide can be found in the README of the repo:
Discord-Node-Typescript-Template

Summary

While learning how to create a Discord bot, I decided it would be good practice to save and document a boilerplate for the Discord bot setup I had going. I wanted to use strict imports and typescript, and I figured others may too. I also wanted to utilize Slash commands. I was inspired by another blog that I cannot find, but the blog stopped at local development, and there were a few quirks to getting it to deploy on Heroku.

The main script is wrapped in an instantly called async function to enable top level await, and the template is configured with ENV variables.

To deploy to Heroku, the Procfile (without an extension) must exist in your repository with contents:

worker: npm start

Limitations - Version 1.0

Current implementation can only be used for 1 Discord server per bot as GUILD_ID is taken as an environment variable. I will update the repo when another approach is taken.

Let me know if this is helpful or you have any feeback, thanks!