Creating an Application

Application is the main class used to initialize and manage a Disfox application.

It provides access to the Discord.js Client, Slash Commands, events, intents, and other application-level features.

This page covers the basic setup of an Application. See the full Application documentation here.

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Import

import { Application } from "disfox";

Disfox uses ESM.

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Creating an Application

The simplest way to create an application is by providing the bot token directly.

import { Application } from "disfox";

const app = new Application("YOUR_TOKEN_HERE");

When no Client or intents are provided, Disfox creates the client automatically.

The default intents are:

[
    GatewayIntentBits.Guilds,
    GatewayIntentBits.GuildMembers,
    GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages,
    GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent
]

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Connecting

Use connect() to log in to Discord.

await app.connect();

After the connection is established, the client becomes available through app.client.

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Refreshing

refresh() destroys the current client connection and logs in again.

await app.refresh();

This is useful after changing settings that require a new Gateway connection, such as intents.

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Other Initialization Methods

Using an Existing Client

You can provide an existing Discord.js Client.

import {
    Client,
    GatewayIntentBits
} from "discord.js";

import { Application } from "disfox";

const client = new Client({
    intents: [
        GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent
    ]
});

const app = new Application({
    token: "YOUR_TOKEN_HERE",
    client
});

Parameters

Property	Type	Description
token	string	Discord bot token.
client	Client	Existing Discord.js client instance.

When a client is provided, Disfox uses that instance instead of creating one.

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Letting Disfox Create the Client

You can provide the intents without creating the Discord.js client manually.

import { GatewayIntentBits } from "discord.js";
import { Application } from "disfox";

const app = new Application({
    token: "YOUR_TOKEN_HERE",
    intents: [
        GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent
    ]
});

Disfox creates the Client using the provided intents.

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Using the Default Intents

If neither client nor intents is provided, the default Disfox intents are used.

import { Application } from "disfox";

const app = new Application({
    token: "YOUR_TOKEN_HERE"
});

Default intents:

[
    GatewayIntentBits.Guilds,
    GatewayIntentBits.GuildMembers,
    GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages,
    GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent
]

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Configuring Intents

Intents can also be changed after creating the Application.

import { GatewayIntentBits } from "discord.js";
import { Application } from "disfox";

const app = new Application("YOUR_TOKEN_HERE");

app.clearIntents();

app.addIntent(
    GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent
);

app.addIntents(
    GatewayIntentBits.Guilds,
    GatewayIntentBits.GuildMembers,
    GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages
);

app.removeIntent(
    GatewayIntentBits.GuildMembers
);

Intent Methods

Method	Parameters	Returns	Description
.clearIntents()	—	void	Removes all configured intents.
.addIntent()	GatewayIntentBits	void	Adds one intent.
.addIntents()	...GatewayIntentBits[]	void	Adds multiple intents.
.removeIntent()	GatewayIntentBits	void	Removes one intent.

If intents are changed after connect() has already been called, refresh the application:

await app.refresh();

The new intents are applied on the next Gateway connection.

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Last updated: October 2, 2026