Kord Extensions is an addon for the excellent Kord library. It intends to provide a framework for larger bot projects, with easy-to-use commands, rich argument parsing and event handling, wrapped up into individual extension classes.
The approach taken here is relatively different from a lot of Kotlin libraries, many of which prefer to provide a DSL
for quickly prototyping or implementing a small application. Instead,
Discord.py (the Discord library for Python) is a primary source of inspiration
for our fairly object-oriented design, especially where it comes to its extensions (which are known as cogs in
Discord.py). Despite this, we still strive to provide an idiomatic API that makes full use of Kotlin's niceties.
If you're ready to get started, please take a look at the documentation.
Kord has released their own command framework, kordx.commands. It's a competent library, but it takes some very different approaches to solving the same problems Kord Extensions does. Most notably, it requires the use of kapt and makes use of an annotation-based autowire system for getting things registered.
In contrast, Kord Extensions provides a less magical approach that is more closely tied to object-oriented programming, and may be more suitable for embedding into other applications. In addition, it provides many useful utilities and niceties that make working with Kord a breeze. At the end of the day, though, the choice is yours - both approaches have pros and cons, and it's worth checking both out to see what you like better!
This file is in an early state, and we're working on bringing over our framework from our bot project. Once we're happy with what we've done, and we've written up some documentation, we'll update this file and make a proper release.