Discord.js mentioning - bots

Question

client.on('message', message => {
if (message.content === `L!hug`) {
if (!message.mentions.users.size) {
return message.reply('you need to tag a user in order to hug them!!');
const taggeduser = message.mentions.users.first();
}
// message goes below!
message.channel.send(userID + ` you just got a hug https://tenor.com/view/anime-cuddle-cute-gif-12668750`);
}
});
I have tried a few ideas and I am very new to this library of language (discord.js)

Answer 1

You can use message.mentions.members.first()
client.on('message', message => {
if (message.content.startsWith('L!hug')) {
let targetMember = message.mentions.members.first();
if(!targetMember) return message.reply('you need to tag a user in order to hug them!!');
// message goes below!
message.channel.send(`<#${targetMember.user.id}> you just got a hug https://tenor.com/view/anime-cuddle-cute-gif-12668750`);
}
});

Answer 2

Discord.js uses many custom toString() and an User return his mention.
So if you want to mention an user in a message you can do
This :
`<#${user.id}>`
But a faster way is this :
`${user}`
And you can simply put user without any String it works also if the function runs a .toString() on your string.
like this :
message.channel.send(user + " has made something");
Will mention the user.
Note :
It won't work anymore in v13.

Answer 3

If you use a command handler like this one
this is how you would make it work
module.exports = {
name: "hug",
description: "# someone to hug them through the bot command.",
nsfw: false,
execute(message, args){
const targetmember = message.mentions.members.first()
if (!targetmember) return message.reply("you need to tag a user in order to hug them.");
var huggifs = [`${targetmember} Recieved a hug https://imgur.com/r9aU2xv`, `${targetmember} Recieved a hug https://tenor.com/LUqw.gif`, `${targetmember} Recieved a hug https://media.giphy.com/media/3ZnBrkqoaI2hq/giphy.gif`, `${targetmember} Recieved a hug https://tenor.com/1jRF.gif`, `${targetmember} Recieved a hug https://media.giphy.com/media/lrr9rHuoJOE0w/giphy.gif`]
var hugrandomform = huggifs[Math.floor(Math.random()*huggifs.length)];
message.channel.send(hugrandomform).then().catch(console.error);
}
}

Answer 4

Here, you can use message.mentions.users.first():
let user = message.mentions.users.first(); // As a shortcut to it
// Check if there is actually a mention
if(!user) {
return message.reply("You need to tag a user in order to hug them!");
}
// If there is a user, do this code
message.channel.send(`${user.toString()}, you just got a hug https://tenor.com/view/anime-cuddle-cute-gif-12668750`);
// user.toString() will convert the user object to a mention
Hope this helped!

Answer 5

Here is a simple version of the code. userID isn't defined, meaning you'd need to use the targetmember. Here, this is how it should be.
client.on('message', message => {
if (message.content === "L!hug") {
const targetmember = message.mentions.members.first()
if (!targetmember) return message.reply("you need to tag a user in order to hug them!!");
message.channel.send(`${targetmember} you just got a hug https://tenor.com/view/anime-cuddle-cute-gif-12668750`);
}
})

Answer 6

You can use this to create a mention (note that it will not work in pre, as no mention works in it)
'<#&' + user_id + '>'
Note the # and &.