10 alternatives to discord.js
discordjs/discord.js — A powerful JavaScript library for interacting with the Discord API (26,821 stars, Apache-2.0, ui, chat, integration).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 882 licence-cleared components from discordjs/discord.js itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discordx-ts/discordx | 4.8 | Apache-2.0 | 736 |
| 2 | serenity-rs/songbird | 4.8 | ISC | 528 |
| 3 | discordeno/discordeno | 4.5 | Apache-2.0 | 939 |
| 4 | bwmarrin/discordgo | 4.6 | BSD-3-Clause | 5,993 |
| 5 | discord4j/discord4j | 4.3 | LGPL-3.0 | 1,927 |
| 6 | serenity-rs/serenity | 4.8 | ISC | 5,638 |
| 7 | disnakedev/disnake | 4.5 | MIT | 771 |
| 8 | abalabahaha/eris | 4.8 | MIT | 1,513 |
| 9 | twilight-rs/twilight | 4.8 | ISC | 890 |
| 10 | disgoorg/disgo | 5.2 | Apache-2.0 | 620 |
The alternatives in detail
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🤖 Create a discord bot with TypeScript and Decorators!score 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 736 stars · 156 components · search them
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An async Rust library for the Discord voice APIscore 4.8/10 · ISC permissive · 528 stars · 107 components · search them
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Discord API library for Node and Denoscore 4.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 939 stars · 260 components · search them
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(Golang) Go bindings for Discordscore 4.6/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 5,993 stars · 19 components · search them
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Discord4J is a fast, powerful, unopinionated, reactive library to enable quick and easy development of Discord bots for Java, Kotlin, and other JVM languages using the official Discord Bot API.score 4.3/10 · LGPL-3.0 weak-copyleft · 1,927 stars · 744 components · search them
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A Rust library for the Discord API.score 4.8/10 · ISC permissive · 5,638 stars · 178 components · search them
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An API wrapper for Discord written in Python.score 4.5/10 · MIT permissive · 771 stars · 160 components · search them
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A NodeJS Discord libraryscore 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 1,513 stars · 78 components · search them
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Powerful, flexible, and scalable ecosystem of Rust libraries for the Discord API.score 4.8/10 · ISC permissive · 890 stars · 634 components · search them
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A modular Golang Discord API Wrapperscore 5.2/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 620 stars · 268 components · search them
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