This is my first time coding seriously and I'm trying to set up my own discord bot. I'm trying to set up a simple response system but where it will answer with the username of the author but everything I've tried has not worked. For example, if i try ${message.author} in the response it will say "hello ${message.author}! instead of giving the username. I've included what I have written so far, I'm hoping someone more skilled than me can tell me what im doing wrong. Basic discord bot code
I've tried ${message.author}, ${user}, ${msg.author.tag}, {msg.author.tag}, {msgauthortag}, ${user.id}, ${user.username}, {user.id}, {message.author.name}. I want the bot to respond with the name or username of the person who wrote the message.
You must switch the apostrophes (') around the string to backticks (`). Also according to the DJS docs, to reply with the username of the user it should be message.author.username. Your code should look something like this:
message.reply(`hello ${message.author.username}!`)
For more information about template literals, you can read the Mozilla docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Template_literals