Create a channel with discord.js

Question

I am trying to do a discord bot that creates channels among others, but I can't achieve it because my code it's supposed to create a channel but... I tried a lot of things, these are the two that haven't given me error: (I substituted the bot's token with DONOTLOOK, I won't have problems...)

OPTION 1:

const Discord = require('discord.js');
const bot = new Discord.Client();

bot.login('DONOTLOOK');

bot.on('ready', () => {
  console.log('Logged in as ${bot.user.tag}!');
});

bot.on('message', msg => {
  if (msg.content === 'ping') {
    msg.reply('Pong!');
    var server = msg.guild;
    bot.channels.add("anewchannel", {type: 0});
  }
});

OPTION 2:

const Discord = require('discord.js');
const bot = new Discord.Client();

bot.login('DONOTLOOK');

bot.on('ready', () => {
  console.log(`Logged in as ${bot.user.tag}!`);
});

bot.on('message', msg => {
  if (msg.content === 'ping') {
    msg.reply('Pong!');
    var server = msg.guild;
    const channel = bot.channels.add("newchannel", {type: 0});
  }
});

That don't gave me any node.js error on console, the bot answered me but haven't created the channel. I also looked two references(https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/guild#create-guild-channel, https://discord.js.org/#/docs/main/stable/class/GuildChannelManager?scrollTo=create), no one's solutions worked, the discord.com one gave me node.js error too. The two options above are taken from the discord.js file, they gave no node.js errors but doesn't create the channel. If someone can help me please.

Answer 1

discord.js v13 has changed some stuff.

Updated version:

bot.on("messageCreate", message => { // instead of 'message', it's now 'messageCreate'
    if (message.content === "channel") {
        message.guild.channels.create("channel name", { 
            type: "GUILD_TEXT", // syntax has changed a bit
            permissionOverwrites: [{ // same as before
                id: message.guild.id,
                allow: ["VIEW_CHANNEL"],
            }]
        });
        message.channel.send("Channel Created!");
})

I would also recommend using bot.guilds.cache.get(message.guildId). This removes the need to use the API to fetch the user.

Answer 2

If you don't want to use messages to create you can use..

var bot = client.guilds.cache.get("<GUILD-ID>");
  server.channels.create("<CHANNEL-TEXT>", "<CHANNEL-TYPE>").then(channel => {
    var cat = server.channels.cache.find(c => c.name == "BUSINESSES" && c.type == "category");
    if (!cat) { console.log("category does not exist"); return; }
    channel.setParent(cat.id);
  })