Skyra

Developing on Skyra

Requirements

Node.js: To run the project.
PostgreSQL: To store persistent data.

Optional additions

Lavalink: Audio server.
InfluxDB: Metrics platform
GraphQL-Pokemon: Pokemon API
Saelem: Horoscope API
Redis: Caching for Saelem and queueing for Lavalink

Set-Up - Refer to CONTRIBUTING.md

A note to aspiring developers who want to self host Skyra

We are not supportive of the idea of people self hosting Skyra as we put a very high priority on providing the best experience we can for our end-users. This image of Skyra will be diminished if people self-host her as they will not use identical architecture to what we do and likely not put in the same amount of effort as we do. If Skyra is lacking a feature you'd like to see, please refer to the developing guidelines above and if you can add that feature it will be in Skyra to stay.

Furthermore, Skyra has not been build with the idea of self hosting in mind and she makes use of many services that you will need to maintain in a production environment for full functionality. For example

Skyra uses many external API's for which you would have to create API keys
Skyra uses Lavalink as music module, this means you need to host your own instance of Lavalink (a Java application)
Skyra uses Redis for the music queue, and as a cache for Saelem
Skyra uses InfluxDB for keeping anonymous metrics of how she is being used
Skyra uses PostgreSQL as database.

All this said, if you really are going to self-host Skyra please take heed, she will absolutely not run on services such as Glitch or Heroku. You will need a VPS (Virtual Private Server), for example from a provider such as Netcup (our provider) or DigitalOcean.

Sidenote, if you really think you're clever enough to self host then you're probably also smart enough to write your own bot.

Story

A bit of story: Skyra, formerly known as kyraBOT (renamed in the middle of March of 2017), is a multipurpose Discord Bot that was born out of curiosity in a SoloLearn guild. With help from other developers, due to my lack of experience (I made websites and templates for After Effects, but never a backend application). Skyra was born. Skyra's name comes from a comment made by a user, joining "kyra" with "SkyNET", creating "SkyraNET", I liked the name and later, she got renamed to "Skyra". Originally, it was going to be renamed as "Shiny" (name taken for the currency) or "Shyy" (original name from the lore) however I decided "Skyra" would be a better name.

Skyra does not only feature almost every feature that is needed in the majority of guilds (discord servers) while being completely configurable, she also has a backstory, inherited from the lore I have been creating since I was a child.

There have been over 14 rewrites with an active development of over two years, I have met many developers and friends in Discord, and in February 2017, I met the Dirigeants team, upon which I started to contribute to Komada, and later, for Klasa. And later in September 2020 I split from Dirigeants along with many of these developers and friends and started Sapphire Project, which is what Skyra is currently using, specifically Sapphire Framework

Who knows, I might write a book someday for Skyra's lore.

Translating Skyra

We use Crowdin to translate Skyra's messages into different languages. If you'd like to help by contributing new translations (or improving existing ones), click here. Thanks for any contributions!

Buy us some doughnuts

Skyra Project is open source and always will be, even if we don't get donations. That said, we know there are amazing people who may still want to donate just to show their appreciation. Thanks you very much in advance!

We accept donations through Patreon, BitCoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. You can use the buttons below to donate through your method of choice.

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Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

_{Antonio Román} ️️️️♿️ 🔊 🐛 💻 🎨 📖 🤔 🚇 🚧 📦 📆 💬 👀 🛡️ ⚠️ 🌍	_{Jeroen Claassens} ️️️️♿️ 🔊 🐛 💻 🎨 📖 🤔 🚇 🚧 📦 📆 💬 👀 🛡️ ⚠️ 🌍	_Stitch07 🐛 💻 🎨 📖 🤔 👀 ⚠️ 🌍 📓	_{Adrian Castro} 💻	_{Tyler Davis} 📖	_{Ed L} 🌍	_{ImmortalSnake} 💻
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_{Gryffon Bellish} 💻	_{Vlad Frangu} 🐛 💻 📖 👀 🌍 📓	_Skillz4Killz 💻	_Jacz 💻	_{Charalampos Fanoulis} 💻 🤔 🚧 📆 🌍	_Skyra 🚇 🌍	_{dependabot-preview[bot]} 🚧
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