Discord Bot and a website communication, what should be the system design [closed]

I'm building a website that lets users add new items in their profiles. Users can also do the same using Discord bot's commands. In both cases the Discord bot sends a message New item added by @user in a certain channel. I'm thinking of how to design the application. Should I have the POST addItem endpoint on the website's server which the bot would call? onNewDiscordMessage(): if (addItemCommand): sendPostRequest(websiteUrl, data) sendMessageInChannel("New item added!") But then the website would also need to have the message be sent in the Discord channel. Should I make the Discord bot a web app too? Have the bot be imported as a dependency and be manageable using POST endpoint? POST("send_discord_message") void sendMessage(String message) Or should I use RabbitMQ/Kafka queues for this? Or websockets/webhooks? EDIT: I'm using Spring Boot for website, Hibernate&PostgreSQL for persistence, and JDA for Discord Bot currently. No specific requirements apart from that. I'd like to understand what good design would look like for such an application.

Mar 10, 2025 - 09:10

I'm building a website that lets users add new items in their profiles. Users can also do the same using Discord bot's commands. In both cases the Discord bot sends a message New item added by @user in a certain channel.

I'm thinking of how to design the application. Should I have the POST addItem endpoint on the website's server which the bot would call?

onNewDiscordMessage():
  if (addItemCommand):
    sendPostRequest(websiteUrl, data)
  sendMessageInChannel("New item added!")

But then the website would also need to have the message be sent in the Discord channel. Should I make the Discord bot a web app too? Have the bot be imported as a dependency and be manageable using POST endpoint?

POST("send_discord_message")
void sendMessage(String message)

Or should I use RabbitMQ/Kafka queues for this? Or websockets/webhooks?

EDIT:

I'm using Spring Boot for website, Hibernate&PostgreSQL for persistence, and JDA for Discord Bot currently. No specific requirements apart from that. I'd like to understand what good design would look like for such an application.