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ANSI escape sequences

ANSI escape sequences can be printed to a shell to as instructions. The below is a list of codes I have used often in my CLI programs and I find myself looking up over and over again.

A great article about it can be found here.

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A metatable in Lua defines various extraneous behaviors for a table when indexed, modified, interacted with, etc. They are Lua's core metaprogramming feature; most well known for being useful to emulate classes much like an OOP language.

Any table (and userdata) may be assigned a metatable. You can define a metatable for a table as such:

-- Our sample table
local tab = {}
-- Our metatable
local metatable = {
 -- This table is then what holds the metamethods or metafields

	//----------//
	//const declarations
	const Discord = require("discord.js");//created on version 11.6.3 - May break on v12+ (Have not tested on v12+.)
	const bot = new Discord.Client({ disableEveryone: true });//declaring "bot" as the client.
	const token = "tokenhere"//bot token goes here
	const prefix = "!" //your prefix goes here

	//----------//
	//code
	bot.on("message", async message => {//when a message is sent (that the bot can read)