🤖 Telegram Bot Template

Bot starter template based on grammY bot framework.

Features

• Scalable structure
• Config loading and validation
• Internationalization, language changing
• Graceful shutdown
• Logger (powered by pino)
• Ultrafast and multi-runtime server (powered by hono)
• Ready-to-use deployment setups:
  • Docker
  • Vercel
• Examples:
  • grammY plugins:
    • Conversations
  • Databases:
    • Prisma ORM
  • Runtimes:
    • Bun

Usage

Follow these steps to set up and run your bot using this template:

1. Create a New Repository

   Start by creating a new repository using this template. You can do this by clicking here.

2. Environment Variables Setup

   Create an environment variables file by copying the provided example file:

   cp .env.example .env

   Open the newly created .env file and set the BOT_TOKEN environment variable.

3. Launching the Bot

   You can run your bot in both development and production modes.

   Development Mode:

   Install the required dependencies:

   npm install

   Start the bot in watch mode (auto-reload when code changes):

   npm run dev

   Production Mode:

   Install only production dependencies:

   npm install --only=prod

   Set DEBUG environment variable to false in your .env file.

   Start the bot in production mode:

   npm run start:force # skip type checking and start
   # or
   npm start # with type checking (requires development dependencies)

List of Available Commands

• npm run lint — Lint source code.
• npm run format — Format source code.
• npm run typecheck — Run type checking.
• npm run dev — Start the bot in development mode.
• npm run start — Start the bot.
• npm run start:force — Starts the bot without type checking.

Directory Structure

project-root/
  ├── locales # Localization files
  └── src
      ├── bot # Code related to bot
      │   ├── callback-data # Callback data builders
      │   ├── features      # Bot features
      │   ├── filters       # Update filters
      │   ├── handlers      # Update handlers
      │   ├── helpers       # Helper functions
      │   ├── keyboards     # Keyboard builders
      │   ├── middlewares   # Bot middlewares
      │   ├── i18n.ts       # Internationalization setup
      │   ├── context.ts    # Context object definition
      │   └── index.ts      # Bot entry point
      ├── server # Code related to web server
      │   ├── middlewares   # Server middlewares
      │   ├── environment   # Server environment setup
      │   └── index.ts      # Server entry point
      ├── config.ts # Application config
      ├── logger.ts # Logging setup
      └── main.ts   # Application entry point

Deploy

Docker (docker.com)

Branch: deploy/docker-compose (open diff)

Use in your project:

1. Add the template repository as a remote

git remote add template git@github.com:bot-base/telegram-bot-template.git
git remote update

2. Merge deployment setup

git merge template/deploy/docker-compose -X theirs --squash --no-commit --allow-unrelated-histories

3. Follow the usage instructions in the deploy/docker-compose branch.

Vercel (vercel.com)

Branch: deploy/vercel (open diff)

Use in your project:

1. Add the template repository as a remote

git remote add template git@github.com:bot-base/telegram-bot-template.git
git remote update

2. Merge deployment setup

git merge template/deploy/vercel -X theirs --squash --no-commit --allow-unrelated-histories

3. Follow the usage instructions in the deploy/vercel branch.

Examples

grammY conversations (grammy.dev/plugins/conversations)

Branch: example/plugin-conversations (open diff)

Use in your project:

1. Add the template repository as a remote

git remote add template git@github.com:bot-base/telegram-bot-template.git
git remote update

2. Merge example

git merge template/example/plugin-conversations -X theirs --squash --no-commit --allow-unrelated-histories

3. Install dependencies

npm i @grammyjs/conversations

4. Follow the usage instructions in the example/plugin-conversations branch.

Prisma ORM (prisma.io)

Branch: example/orm-prisma (open diff)

Use in your project:

1. Add the template repository as a remote

git remote add template git@github.com:bot-base/telegram-bot-template.git
git remote update

2. Merge example

git merge template/example/orm-prisma -X theirs --squash --no-commit --allow-unrelated-histories

3. Install dependencies

npm i -D prisma
npm i @prisma/client

4. Follow the usage instructions in the example/orm-prisma branch.

Bun (bun.sh)

Branch: example/runtime-bun (open diff)

Use in your project:

1. Add the template repository as a remote

git remote add template git@github.com:bot-base/telegram-bot-template.git
git remote update

2. Merge example

git merge template/example/runtime-bun -X theirs --squash --no-commit --allow-unrelated-histories

3. Install dependencies

# remove Node-related dependencies
npm r @types/node tsx tsc-watch

# install dependencies
bun i

# remove npm lockfile
rm package-lock.json

# install bun typings
bun add -d @types/bun

4. Follow the usage instructions in the example/runtime-bun branch.

Environment Variables

Variable	Type	Description
BOT_TOKEN	String	Telegram Bot API token obtained from @BotFather.
BOT_MODE	String	Specifies method to receive incoming updates (polling or webhook).
LOG_LEVEL	String	Optional. Specifies the application log level. Use info for general logging. Check the Pino documentation for more log level options. Defaults to info.
DEBUG	Boolean	Optional. Enables debug mode. You may use config.isDebug flag to enable debugging functions.
BOT_WEBHOOK	String	Optional in polling mode. Webhook endpoint URL, used to configure webhook.
BOT_WEBHOOK_SECRET	String	Optional in polling mode. A secret token that is used to ensure that a request is sent from Telegram, used to configure webhook.
SERVER_HOST	String	Optional in polling mode. Specifies the server hostname. Defaults to 0.0.0.0.
SERVER_PORT	Number	Optional in polling mode. Specifies the server port. Defaults to 80.
BOT_ALLOWED_UPDATES	Array of String	Optional. A JSON-serialized list of the update types you want your bot to receive. See Update for a complete list of available update types. Defaults to an empty array (all update types except chat_member, message_reaction and message_reaction_count).
BOT_ADMINS	Array of Number	Optional. Administrator user IDs. Use this to specify user IDs that have special privileges, such as executing /setcommands. Defaults to an empty array.