Documentation Overview

This docs set is written for teams maintaining Discord bots in production.

Learning Path

1. Getting Started
2. Core Concepts
3. Implementation Guides
4. Deployment + Operations
5. API + Reference

Audience

• Bot developers building structured Discord bots
• Package authors extending Arcane behavior
• Maintainers who need reliable deploy and test workflows

Current Runtime Scope

Arcane currently includes:

• CLI scaffolding and generation
• Runtime loading and validation
• Command registration and interaction handling
• Event binding and execution from JSON config
• Component interactions (buttons/select menus)
• Development watch mode and reload hooks

Recommended Team Workflow

1. Define command/event contracts in JSON.
2. Validate with arcane validate --strict.
3. Run arcane dev in a test guild and verify hot-reload behavior.
4. Move to global command registration when stable.
5. Deploy via arcane deploy --pm2 --name arcanebuilder.