TypeError: bot.on is not a function

Question

I'm making a discord bot in JS and I keep getting this error no matter what I try, I've researched and it seems it's just me getting it.

This is the error:

TypeError: bot.on is not a function
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\quinb\Desktop\Supreme\bot.js:6:5)
    at Module._compile (module.js:573:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:584:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:507:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:470:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:462:3)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:609:10)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:158:16)
    at bootstrap_node.js:598:3

C:\Users\quinb\Desktop\Supreme>pause

This is the batch startup code for my bot:

node bot.js
pause

This is the javascript code for my bot:

const botSettings = require("./botsettings.json");
const bot = require("discord.js");

const client = new bot.Client({disableEveryone: true});

bot.on("ready", async () => {
  console.log(`Bot is ready!${bot.user.username}`);

  try{
    let link = await bot.generateInvite(["ADMINISTRATOR"]);
    console.log(link);
  }catch(e) {
    console.log(e.stack);
  }
});

bot.on("message", async message => {
    if(message.author.bot) return;
    if(message.channel.type === "dm") return;

    let messageArray = message.content.split(" ");
    let command = messageArray[0];
    let args = messageArray.slice(1);

    if(!command.content.startsWith(prefix)) return;

    if(command == `${prefix}userinfo`) {
      console.log("I'm not a moron")
    }
});

bot.login(botSettings.token);

Unfinished

I've tried to install discord.js via npm all of these ways:

npm install discord.js --save
npm install --save discord.js
npm install i --save discord.js
npm install discord.js 

it still doesn't seem to work. node version: v8.4.0 npm version: 5.3.0

Please help!

Answer 1

It seems like you have to use client instead of bot. I really don't know why, but for me it worked perfectly fine. If you need more information go on https://discordapp.com/invite/bRCvFy9