5.0.0

Added

• TypeScript
• ESM support
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• TypeScript linting
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• CommandHandler builder class
• index.ts for command scripts
• New /invite command with automatic invite link generation
• Automatic deployed commands sync checking
• NPM package version number to /help embed
• Command mentions to all embeds that mention commands
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• EventHandler builder class
• Separate folder for event handler scripts
• index.ts for event scripts
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• Environment variable management using dotenv
• Example .env
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• Separate script for whitelist management
• Auto-generation for whitelist memory file
• Parallel promises for faster whitelist channel fetching/validating
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• Separate script for context management
• Automatic context generation for all whitelisted channels on startup
• Automatic context generation/deletion when whitelist is updated
• Parallel promises for faster context generation
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• Separate script for thinking management
• Automatic timeout for thinking storage
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• Separate script for activity management
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• New parameters script to store global parameters
• Default colors for all embeds to use
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• Separate script to abstract out the logger
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• .vscode settings and extensions and debugger setup
• devcontainer setup
• npm run commands script to deploy commands
• Node 18 .nvmrc and engine field in package.json
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• cleverbot-free API status to README
• Development section to README
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• JSDoc for most public functions and fields

Changed

• Moved all source code into ./src folder
• Reorganized and renamed most files
• Updated all dependencies to latest versions and resolved all security alerts
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• eslint to use new flat config (eslint.config.js instead of .eslintrc.json)
• Simplified eslint rules
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• /help replies and redundant /whitelist and /unwhitelist replies to be ephemeral
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• token field to be stored in environment variables instead of config.json memory file
• Memory files to be stored under user ID instead of username
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• Whitelist storage to be more efficient
• Whitelist to store channel objects instead of channel IDs
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• Context storage to be more efficient
• Context to store message objects instead of strings
• Improved context generation
• resumeConversations to use context instead of fetching messages manually
• Context length to be limited to 10 messages
• Context generation to not gather messages from before channel was whitelisted
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• deployCommands to use official client application command setter
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• Moved helper methods to new utils folder
• Replaced isFromUser() with isFromSelf()
• Replaced doesMentionUser() with doesMentionSelf()
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• Cleaned up and significantly reduced logging output
• Logging colors to use type-safe version
• Improved logging output coloration
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• Improved fields in package.json
• Project name to be lowercase (discord-cleverbot instead of Discord-Cleverbot)
• Cleaned up .gitignore
• README to be more concise
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• Embeds to use EmbedBuilders instead of raw objects
• Replaced string concatenation with template literals
• User/channel/command mentions to use discord.js mention formatters
• File path construction to use path.join
• Discord IDs to use Snowflake type insetad of basic strings
• All files to use camelCase
• Improved comments
• Imports to use standardized alphabetical ordering
• Promises to use async/await instead of .then().catch()
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• Typing speed from 6 char/sec to 8 char/sec

Removed

• config.json memory files
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• Redundant context generation when new message is received
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• Redundant reset option for deployCommands
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• Unnecessary GuildTyping and DMTyping GatewayIntentBits from the client

Fixed

• Bug where setTimeout methods would crash
• Bug where emoji replacement would replace innocent underscores and colons

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And much more!