Discord Bot not responding to ping command

Question

I know some basic python and I decided to try my hand at making a discord bot, but failed to get the bot to respond to a command. I tried changing the '-ping' to 'ping' and tried typing on my discord server:

ping -ping

but neither did anything. Furthermore,

console.log('This does not run');

does not show up in console.

I'm not quite sure where I wrong. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

const {Client, Intents} = require('discord.js');
const {token} = require('./config.json');
const client = new Client({intents:[Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS]});
const prefix = '-';



client.once('ready', () => {
   console.log('Bot works');
});


client.on('message', message => {
   console.log('This does not run');
   if(!message.content.startsWith(prefix) || message.author.bot) return;

   const args = message.content.slice(prefix.length).split(/ */);
   const command = args.shift().toLowerCase();

   if(command === '-ping'){
       message.channel.send('pong');
   }
});

client.login(token);

Answer 1

I think you need the GUILD_MESSAGES intent enabled. You can add it to the list of intents in the client constructor, like so:

const client = new Client({intents:[Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS, Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_MESSAGES]});

Answer 2

thank you very much i had the same issue but resolved it thanks to your suggestion