bobbit04 / stargate

Discord bot using Stargate Serverless (Cassandra DB)

🤖 Discord bot using Stargate 🤖

Stargate is a data gateway deployed between client applications and a database. It's built with extensibility as a first-class citizen and makes it easy to use a database for any application workload by adding plugin support for new APIs, data types, and access methods.

YouTube video of Stargate

Technologies Used

• DiscordJS with Typescript
• Stargate - sign up with GitHub login for FREE on DataStax Stargate and get a NoSQL DB up in minutes with approximately 30 million reads, 5 million writes, and 40GB of storage per month for free (Docker container also available) - watch a 1min video by me on how to create and retrieve data

GitHub actions

Tag	Name	Triggers	Results
	Change Log	Pushes to main branch	Updates release tag
	CodeQL Status	Pushes & Pull Request	Checkout repository, installs dependencies, build files, perform analysis
	Docker Publish Status	Published releases	build, test, push to registory, deploy
	Docs status	Pushes to doc/ repository	Checkout source files, build doc files, deploy
	Labels status	Pushes to doc/labels.json	checkout source files, install deps, import labels
	Node CI status	Pushes & Pull Request	Checkout source files, install dependencies, lint source files, verify build, run tests
	Stale issues and PRs status	Iterval of every 30 minutes	Updates issue / PR messages & labels

Screenshot

Quickstart

1. Fork the project
2. Clone project using git clone [email protected]:<YOUR-USERNAME>/stargate.git
3. Navigate into the project using cd stargate
4. Run cp .env.example .env
5. Add the respective env-vars to the .env file
   • generating Discord bot token
   • making AUTH token for Stargate
6. Install dependencies npm install
7. Run the docker container for stargate (not this repo) with docker-compose up

Docs

• Project board v0.1 of to do, in progress, done

Full docs deployed to https://eddiejaoude.github.io/stargate/ and available in the repo at docs/README.adoc

Building the docs

Install AsciiDoctor and CodeRay.

npm run docs

Phase 1

Goals

A video tutorial on how to use Stargate serverless

Features:

• CRUD usage of Stargate
• Discord Bot (bio, social links, timezone)
• 5-10mins edited video

Challenges

• Cassandra is associated with being "scary"
• People using what they are used to even if the wrong tool for the job
• People use what they hear most for example Mongo or an equivalent in the frontend space React

Storytelling

• That it is not any more difficult than similar alternatives
• Simple and quick to use at hackathons and build prototypes
• Scalable so that enterprise projects can use it too
• Serverless is an affordable option for everyone (also has a free tier)
• Stargate is open source and can grow and scale with the project

Problem

• Awareness of Stargate
• Cassandra scares people, usually perceived as being "difficult" or "hard"
• Educating people on the benefits of using Stargate

Solution

• Short / concise video (5-10mins)
• 1min social teaser video
• Include what is Stargate serverless
• Build a simple Discord bot, to get/set user details and read/write to DB using Stargate serverless (bio, socials)

Vision

• Easily digestible content
• More projects on Github using Stargate
• Clear and engaging message
• Lowering the barrier to entry
• Low cost of usage
• Community excited about it

Impact

• Evergreen content
• Searchable content
• Concise / digestible content for everyone to get started
• Community building their own projects with Stargate serverless

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