Building a Serverless Discord Bot with Azure Functions

Building a Serverless Discord Bot with Azure Functions

Discord Slash Commands are a way to interact with bots on Discord. They provide a user-friendly interface for bot interactions, allowing users to execute commands directly from the chat input box by typing / followed by the command name. Today we’ll look at how to use Azure Functions to create a Discord slash-command bot

Azure Functions Overview

Azure Functions are a serverless computing service provided by Microsoft as part of the Azure cloud platform. It allows developers to write and execute code in response to a variety of events without the need to provision or manage servers. They are particularly well suited for event driven problems, IE “something (an event) happens, this is the code I run when it does (the function)”