discord.js | Reply to Message (Actual Reply with Reply Decoration)

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Recently, Discord added new functionality that when a user replies to a message, it quotes it and adds a little line that the replier's profile picture with the original sender's profile picture and message, as seen here (me replying to a message from a bot):

Message reply screenshot

Is it possible to do it with Discord.js?

Currently, I've no problem using message.reply(), however the bot just sends a message, rather than actually reply to it (sends a "reply-typed" message), which is what is shown when I reply to a message via the app's GUI, manually (as shown above).

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5 Answers

Discord.js will support inline replies in version 13, replacing Message#reply with the new functionality. If you want to try the feature ahead of time, please install and test this PR: https://github.com/discordjs/discord.js/pull/4874. We are always happy to receive bug reports before features are released! (As per usual the ETA on v13 is "when it's ready")

The maintainers of the djs module have made a comment about this in the official djs server's faq channel. This feature is expected to be implemented only in version 13, if you want to implement this you have to fork djs and write your own reply code to use the message reference parameter in the official discord API gateway

user_122319800

You can do this:

client.api.channels[message.channel.id].messages.post({
  data: {
    content: "this is my message content!",
    message_reference: {
      message_id: message.id,
      channel_id: message.channel.id,
      guild_id: message.guild.id
    }
  }
})
user_157810790

Using discord-reply: https://www.npmjs.com/package/discord-reply

Main file

const discord = require('discord.js');
require('discord-reply'); //⚠️ IMPORTANT: put this before your discord.Client()
const client = new discord.Client();

client.on('ready', () => {
  console.log(client.user.tag)
});

client.on('message', async message => {
  if (message.content.startsWith('!reply')) {
    message.lineReply('Hey'); //Line (Inline) Reply with mention

    message.lineReplyNoMention(`My name is ${client.user.username}`); //Line (Inline) Reply without mention
  }
});

client.login('TOKEN');

On command handler

/**
 * No need to define it
 * */
module.exports = {
  name: 'reply',
  category: 'Test',
  run: (client, message, args) => {
    message.lineReply('This is reply with @mention');
  }
}
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user_131744760

In Discord.JS versions 13+ you can now use the Message#reply() method to send inline replies.

Docs

message.reply("woohoo, inline reply support!").then(/* ... */).catch(console.error);
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