Rewrite & New features

[AGuyNamedJens]

This is a draft for new features within the FactorioChatBot
Feel free to commit updates.

Features:

• Added support for nicknames from discord
• Added deleteMessages option
• Reformatted parseMessage
• Prevent errors happening when sending messages
• Add support to disable the sent message being returned by the bot
• Add support for more information in the chat, such as when mentioning locations in-game
• Add support for more events such as research_finished if possible
• Rewrite documentation from the readme to the wiki pages
• Optimize code

[Mattie112]

Ah whoops I missed this! Feel free to close my MR in that case :)

[mikhailmikhalchuk]

Definitely willing to contribute to this. Noticed some of the content on my fork on the main, so I'm assuming it got some traction. Have we considered switching the main language to TypeScript?

[AGuyNamedJens]

@MikhailMCraft Hey, I never left this project behind, I just didn't get any new feature requests and i did indeed base some features and ideas from your fork.

I don't mind using typescript but wouldn't it make the "simple" bot, more advanced since building the TS files will be required?

I'm also considering automatic builds, which in this case would be the compiled files if we'll switch to typescript so the user won't have to compile everything on their own.

Let me know what you think.

[mikhailmikhalchuk]

Cool. In the future, it's prudent for both parties usually to approach the author of the fork when merging code upstream. I do not personally mind (and the license allows it regardless), but it is something to keep in mind.

TypeScript files do not have to be prebuilt and can just be built on runtime. There is virtually no change from JavaScript in terms of runtime building as it is around the same speed.

If there is a Discord server, or you have a Discord handle, I'd be more than glad to continue discussing this on there.

[AGuyNamedJens]

That's true. I might make a license change in the future to mention approaching the author when adding new features, would be a good idea to mention, wouldn't it?

Alright, in my own Discord bot project there's a huge difference between building and running directly, probably because it's larger than a 300-lined bot. We could indeed switch to typescript. Pre-builds would still probably be nice though.

I indeed have a discord server, feel free to join here