Twitch Chat Bot Tutorial - Create & Deploy with node.js, tmi.js, & Heroku
Learn how to create and deploy a Twitch chat bot using node.js and Heroku. We'll walk through:
Creating a node.js project from scratch with npm init
Installing and configuring tmi.js to listen to Twitch chat messages
Authenticating a Twitch account to send messages with tmi.js
Parsing Twitch chat messages for commands
Deploying a node.js Twitch chat bot to Heroku
🧐 What's Inside
00:00 Intro to Creating a Twitch Chat Bot
00:30 What tools will we use?
01:20 Starting a node.js app from scratch with npm init
02:58 Using tmi.js to listen to Twitch chat messages
04:50 Testing the chat app on a Twitch stream
06:16 Authenticating a Twitch account to send messages with tmi.js
08:45 Using environment variables with dotenv to store sensitive data
10:34 Sending a response to a Twitch chat from a bot user
12:10 Listening for and parsing chat commands with regexp
15:25 Creating a map of responses to respond to commands with
19:01 Deploying the Twitch chat bot to Heroku
22:18 Adding a Procfile and configuring a Heroku worker dyno
23:50 Testing the deployed Twitch chat bot
24:48 Outro
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