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Introduction

Bakit is a framework that makes building Discord bots easier. It's built on top of discord.js and helps you handle the core system for your bot.

Why Bakit?​

  • 🧩 Unified Command System - write once for both slash and prefix command.
  • 🚀 Clean API interfaces - well-structured commands and events.
  • ⚡ Lightweight - minimal overhead, only what you need.
  • ✨ TypeScript + ESM first - modern JavaScript tooling out of the box.

A quick peek​

import { defineCommand } from "bakit";

const Ping = defineCommand({
	name: "ping",
	description: "Display bot latency",
});

Ping.defineMain(async (context) => {
	await context.send(`Pong! ${context.client.ws.ping}ms`);
});

export default command;

With just this simple code, you will have both slash and prefix command version of ping! That means users can run it either as /ping or as !ping (or whatever prefix you set).

Ping command example

When Bakit might not be for you​

  • You don't want to use TypeScript.
  • You don't want to use ESM and prefer CommonJS.
  • You don't need any fancy scalable APIs for your simple slash command bot.