What is a plugin?
What a plugin is, what the platform does for you, and how a plugin differs from a self-hosted bot.
What is a plugin?
A plugin is a small program that listens to events in a Discord server and reacts to them. Someone joins your server → your plugin sends a welcome message. Someone types…
The whole journey at a glance
Every plugin moves through the same five stops, and these docs are laid out in the same order — the tab bar above groups them into Understand → Build → Ship → Reference . Each…
Good to know before you build
Your code has no direct network access. All HTTP goes through ctx.http to domains you declare; live connections go through ctx.ws . Nothing persists on disk. Containers are wiped…
Find it fast
Jump straight to the section that answers your question. The filter box above only searches the tab you are on. I want to… Go to React when someone joins, posts or clicks Build:…