I can't understand the bot prefix (code written in discord.js)?

Question

Node.js

I wanted to make a music bot but failed with discord.py so I wanted to try with discord.js and I did but I can't figure out the bot prefix. Here is the code:

const args = message.content.slice(settings.prefix.length).trim().split(/ +/g);
    const command = args.shift();
    let guildQueue = client.player.getQueue(message.guild.id);

I can't figure out what prefix the bot has? (in the config I wrote a prefix for the bot - !).

Answer 1

config is just a data store.
therefore, by adding something there, you will not change anything until you use this data in the code.
if you want the bot to respond to a specific prefix from the config, you can do something like this:

if (message.content.startsWith(`${settings.prefix}название_команды1`)) {
    /* ... */
} else if (message.content.startsWith(`${settings.prefix}название_команды2`)) {
    /* ... */
} // и т.д

then if the message starts with

(prefix)your_team_name

...your code will run.