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I wanted to build a Discord bot for my server. How hard could it be, right? Connect to Discord's API, listen for messages, respond when needed. Should be a weekend project.
Spoiler alert: it wasn't.
What I thought would be straightforward turned into a crash course in building resilient network clients. By the time I had a working `DiscordGatewayClient` that could stay connected reliably, I'd learned a bunch of things that made me a better developer.
Here's what building this bot taught me—maybe some of it will be useful for your projects too.
## Abstractions Are Worth The Extra Work (Even When They Feel Unnecessary)