Building a custom server

If you want to run a server yourself, or build a Dressed project into a pre-existing ecosystem the default node:http server may not cut it. Thankfully Dressed exports many different helpers for you to customize pretty much the whole server functionality.

Here's an example of integrating Dressed into a Hono server. See the deploying guides for more examples.

import { commands, components, events } from "./.dressed";
import { handleRequest } from "dressed/server";
import { Hono } from "hono";
 
const app = new Hono();
app.post("/bot", ({ req }) => handleRequest(req.raw, commands, components, events));
 
export default app;

The handleRequest function takes a Request object and bot data, then runs the interaction and returns a Response object.

The handleInteraction function is great for things like initiating a Dressed handler from within a @dressed/ws event.

import { createInteraction, handleInteraction } from "dressed/server";
import { commands, components, config } from "./.dressed";
import { createConnection } from "@dressed/ws";
 
const connection = createConnection();
 
connection.onInteractionCreate((data) => {
  const interaction = createInteraction(data);
  handleInteraction(commands, components, interaction, config.middleware);
});