discord.js: syntaxError: Identifier 'client' has already been declared-CodePudding

I am making a discord bot with Node.js and discord.js. and I type node index.js and it said:

const client = new Discord.Client({       
       ^

SyntaxError: Identifier 'client' has already been declared
    at Object.compileFunction (node:vm:352:18)
    at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1033:15)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1069:27)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1159:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:77:12)
    at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47

What to do?

my index.js:

const { client, GatewayIntentBits } = require("discord.js");
const config = require("./config.json");

const client = new Discord.Client({
        intents: [
                GatewayIntentBIts.Guilds,
                 GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages
         ]});
clien.login(config.BOT_TOKEN);

My config.json:

{
      "BOT_TOKEN": "MY BOT TOKEN"
}

I am using neovim

My discord.js version is 14.6.0

CodePudding user response：

I saw that you have misspelled Client. Use this instead.

const { Client, GatewayIntentBits } = require("discord.js");

const client = new Client({
        intents: [
                GatewayIntentBIts.Guilds,
                 GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages
         ]});

CodePudding user response：

**you need to change the variable name in 4th line from client to another name **

const { client, GatewayIntentBits } = require("discord.js");
const config = require("./config.json");

const client = new Discord.Client({ //change here variable name another from client 
    intents: [
            GatewayIntentBIts.Guilds,
             GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages
     ]});
clien.login(config.BOT_TOKEN);