BOT-TEMPLATE

Starter pack for running telegram bot on the Heroku using Node.js

Requirements

• node ^18

Step-by-step

Try bot locally

1. Create your own bot using Telegram's BotFather and grab your TOKEN.
2. Clone or download and unpack this repo.
3. Go to the app's folder using cd ~/heroku-node-telegram-bot
4. Run npm install (in some cases you will need to run this with sudo, you know, just the permissions).
5. Rename .env_example file into .env and set TG_BOT_TOKEN to the value, you've got from the BotFather.
6. Run npm run dev and send smth to your bot.
7. After it says "hello" to you, we can go to the next step 😎

Deploy your bot to the heroku

1. Create the Heroku account and install the Heroku Toolbelt.
2. Login to your Heroku account using heroku login.
3. Go to the app's folder using cd ~/bot-template
4. Run heroku create to prepare the Heroku environment.
5. Run heroku config:set TG_BOT_TOKEN=SET HERE THE TOKEN YOU'VE GOT FROM THE BOTFATHER and heroku config:set HEROKU_URL=$(heroku info -s | grep web_url | cut -d= -f2) to configure environment variables on the server.
6. Run git add -A && git commit -m "Ready to run on heroku" && git push heroku main to deploy your bot to the Heroku server.
7. Send smth to the bot to check out if it works ok.

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Possible issues: After installing modules (npm i) check that package.json (only) has this stroke: "type": "module"