Hey, @bestcodes! Welcome to the Vercel Community

This is a great article and project. Thank you for sharing with us! I'm sure that this will be helpful to those wanting to deploy their own Discord bots to Vercel.

You're in the right place! We'll see what we can do. What were you thinking?

Thanks for the fast reply!

As far as updating the Vercel guide page (not sure how that's managed, is it a public repository?), I had a few things in mind:

• Mention that Discord bots with applications commands can be deployed to Vercel, but make note of serverless limitations
• Have an example or examples of how to do so. This could be starting from scratch or using a framework, like Discraft or other frameworks that might support Vercel deployment (but I don't think there are any others yet)

I think the Vercel guide kinda paints it as not possible right now, but it is possible (with limitations) so an update might be good. I also completely understand if you can't mention third-party libraries in the Vercel guide; mentioning Discraft would be very nice (), but Vercel doesn't own it, so I'm not sure if it could be mentioned anyway.

@pawlean I just now realized I forgot to mention you, sorry I replied to you above.

No worries at all! Thank you for your patience

It isn't a public repository, we manage this in a CMS.

Thank you for the idea! Let me see what we can do

Launched this on Peerlist now! If you have feedback, please comment, it helps a lot https://peerlist.io/bestcodes/project/video-dark-to-light-mode-converter

Sorry, posted the above in the wrong spot...

I've been in so many threads, don't worry! I thought it was the right one

Update! I just created a blog on my website and the blog post linked in my first post has moved here:

https://bestcodes.dev/blog/how-to-deploy-a-discord-bot-to-vercel

BestCodes — Official Website

How to Deploy a Discord Bot to Vercel

Learn how to deploy a free AI Discord bot to Vercel using Discraft and TypeScript.

Thanks for the update! I wanted to let you know that we actually shared this with a customer recently. Appreciate the knowledge sharing here

Thanks for sharing it, that's so awesome of you guys

Vercel bot deployments just got better!

With the latest Discraft Vercel template in version 1.7.5, commands are immediately acknowledged and deferred. This means Discord will not time out the command after 3 seconds, and will instead allow the command to load for up to 15 minutes. The acknowledgement itself must happen within 3 seconds, but this should usually not be an issue. To see it in action, try the bot in the Discord server!

https://discord.gg/dKeuR9yfBs

To get started with the updated Vercel template, update Discraft to 1.7.5 with your package manager and run discraft init. Choose the Vercel + TS + AI template. If you are using the latest version, you should see a commands/chat.ts file after initialization with these comments near the top:

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// Here you define your command data
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// Discraft will handle the registration and interactions with the API

The commands API for serverless commands has changed a bit, but not substantially. If you already had commands, it shouldn't be hard to migrate (blog post coming soon).

Code changes: https://github.com/The-Best-Codes/discraft-js/compare/v1.7.4...v1.7.5 Thanks for using Discraft! 🎉

https://x.com/the_best_codes/status/1920523045363487099

The constraint around Discord requiring application commands (rather than persistent event listeners) is still relevant for serverless, but there's a new tool worth knowing about. Vercel just launched the Chat SDK (npm i chat), an open-source TypeScript SDK that abstracts over Discord, Slack, Teams, GitHub, Linear, and Google Chat with a unified API.

It's designed specifically for the serverless interaction model and handles the platform-specific differences so you can focus on your bot logic.

Reference: https://vercel.com/changelog/chat-sdk

Vercel

Introducing npm i chat – One codebase, every chat platform - Vercel

Chat SDK is now open source and available in public beta. It's a TypeScript library for building chat bots that work across Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, GitHub, and Linear — from a single codebase.