Discord Bot Setup

[JLX89]

Hello All!
I'm looking at trying to setup the Bastion Discord Bot. So from the looks of it, it can be run on Docker. Am I correct in assuming that the easiest way to get this up and running would to package it up as a Cloudron App using the Example provided by Cloudron?

This would be my first adventure trying to package something up to use.

Thanks!

[murgero]

@jlx89 Since the bot runs on Node you might be able to just spin up a LAMP stack app (which includes nodejs) and use the run.sh feature (RE: https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/lamp/#custom-startup-script) so you may not need to take the time to learn and then package a full app for this.

That said if you still would like to package an app for this for whatever reason I am more than happy to help!

[JLX89]

@murgero I will give that a shot, thank you so much!

[MisterJD]

@JLX89 sorry for bringing up an older thread. But I stumbled across this and am looking for something exactly like this. Did you get any further with it, did it work with LAMP Stack?

[subven]

@murgero wow I never thaught about that. We might be able to install other brigdes like mautrix-telegram as well inside the LAMP stack.

[JLX89]

@MisterJD No, it’s been a while and IIRC it was working and the bot would show as “online” for around 30 seconds and it would crash. I suspect it could be done with some tweaks.

[murgero]

@subven Not sure if the LAMP app still supports it but I suspect it does. NodeJS, python, and PHP I believe LAMP can handle to at least some degree.

More advanced NodeJS apps will not work though - a basic bot like OP wanted would however so long as you run it with some time of supervisor like node-forever.

[murgero]

@murgero I forgot to mention - using the run.sh custom startup script cannot hang onto the cli session in the cloudron app. You MUST start the app with & at the end:

/usr/bin/node /app/data/nodeapp.js & for example to run it in the background and allow run.sh to close so start.sh can run!

[girish]

Since 7.2, you can also run a "service" using the cron section - https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/#cron .

So:

@service /usr/bin/node /app/data/nodeapp.js

[murgero]

@girish This is likely gonna be MUCH cleaner, thanks for letting us know!