This version of @biscuitland/ws is a fork of @discordeno/gateway, all credits go to them. However it has been heavily modified for proper use within biscuit.

Most importantly, biscuit's ws is:

A standalone gateway to interface Discord, it is meant to be used with a rest manager to send fetch requests to Discord

Install (for node18)

npm install @biscuitland/ws
yarn add @biscuitland/ws

Example

import { GatewayManager } from "@biscuitland/ws";
import { BiscuitREST, Router } from "@biscuitland/rest";
import { GatewayIntentBits } from "@biscuitland/common";

const intents = GatewayIntentBits.Guilds;
const token = "your token goes here";
const rest = new BiscuitREST({ token });
const api = new Router(rest).createProxy();

(async () => {
  const connection = await api.gateway.bot.get();

  // gateway bot code ↓
  const ws = new GatewayManager({
    token,
    intents,
    connection,
    async handlePayload(shardId, payload) {
      console.log("Received payload on shard #%s", shardId, payload);
    },
  });

  await ws.spawnShards();
})();

README.md

@biscuitland/ws

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Most importantly, biscuit's ws is:

Install (for node18)

Example

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