Discord.js - Cooldown for a command for each user not all users

Question

I am developing a discord.js bot and I want to make a cooldown for a command.

I saw a lot of tutorials on how to do it on Google, but all those tutorials do it for a

Answer 1

You can use the package quick.db in case you want to keep track of cooldowns, even after a restart.

  let cooldown = 43200000; // 12 hours in ms

  let lastDaily = await db.fetch(`daily_${message.author.id}`);

  if (lastDaily !== null && cooldown - (Date.now() - lastDaily) > 0) {
    // If user still has a cooldown
    let timeObj = ms(cooldown - (Date.now() - lastDaily)); // timeObj.hours = 12
} else {
    // Otherwise they'll get their daily
  }