How Do I Make A Discord.js Bot Actually Reply To A Message?

I've been making a Discord.js (V12) bot that supports the type of command 'say' (please note I'm new to this), but when I use this 'say' command and click 'reply' in a specific mes

Solution 1:

There's no way to do that in v12 but it's possible with an API request more specifically Create Message.

And the field that allows us to reply to a message is message_reference

const fetch = require('node-fetch')
client.on("message", (message) => {
  if (message.author.bot) return;
  const url = `https://discord.com/api/v8/channels/${message.channel.id}/messages`;
  var payload = {
    content: "Hello, World!",
    tts: false,
    message_reference: {
      message_id: message.id
    }
  };
   fetch(url, {
    method: "POST",
    body: JSON.stringify(payload),
    headers: {
      Authorization: `${client.user?.bot ? "Bot " : ""}${client.token}`,
      'Accept': 'application/json',
      'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    },
  }).catch(() => { });
});

Solution 2:

I use a package for discord.js v12 to reply to a message.

If I understand correctly, you want to make something like this?

The result

In npm, install a package called "discord-reply".

npm i discord-reply

Then, where you defined discord.js, require the discord-reply package. Do it like this:

const discord = require('discord.js');
require('discord-reply'); //IMPORTANT: put this before defining the clientconst client = new discord.Client();

Then, instead of message.send or message.reply just use:

message.lineReply('Text goes here')

Hovewer, if you don't want to mention a user with reply, use this:

message.lineReplyNoMention('Text goes here');

As simple as that!