Setup

Bot Account Setup

Follow the instructions here: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/discord.html

Bot Setup

❗❗ Before you start, fork your own copy of SurPathHub/Dayong.

❗❗ You can also perform the steps below directly on your copy of Dayong on GitHub

❗❗ Your copy of the GitHub repository can be used to deploy changes automatically.

1. Clone your fork to your local machine.

   HTTP

   git clone https://github.com/<your username>/Dayong.git

   SSH

   git clone git@github.com:<your username>/Dayong.git

   GitHub CLI

   gh repo clone <your username>/Dayong.git

2. Go to the project root directory.

   cd Dayong

3. Edit the config.json file and its values as necessary.

   The config.json file stores public options, settings, properties, configuration, and preferences.

4. After setting up Dayong, commit and push your changes.

5. Deploy!

For local development

1. git clone Dayong to your local machine.

2. Go to the project root directory.

   cd Dayong

3. Create a copy of .env.example. Don't forget to omit the .example at the end.

   On Linux and Unix

   cp .env.example .env

   On Windows

   copy .env.example .env

4. Edit the .env file and add your credentials to the corresponding variables.

5. Install poetry. Check if poetry is installed by running poetry --version.

6. Run poetry shell. This will create or start the virtual environment.

7. Run poetry install. This will install the project and its dependencies.

8. Edit the config.json file and its values as necessary.

   The config.json file stores public options, settings, properties, configuration, and preferences.

9. Quickly test if the configuration works by running:

   python dayong

10. After setting up Dayong, git commit and git push your changes.