Emit

The Responder handler you create will be executed when an interaction event is emitted! But you can easily emit your own interaction event using the emitResponder function:

import { emitResponder } from "@constatic/base";

emitResponder("/foo/bar", interaction);

Pass the corresponding Responder's customId as the first argument and an interaction of any type as the second argument.

Then the Responder's run handler will be executed:

import { createResponder } from "#base";
import { ResponderType } from "@constatic/base";

createResponder({
    customId: "/foo/bar",
    types: [ResponderType.Button], cache: "cached",
    async run(interaction){
        // do things
    }
});

You can pass customId parameters to the emitResponder function and they will arrive in the Responder:


emitResponder(`/remember/${Date.now()}`, interaction)
//                        ^ "1780301472577"

// ...
createResponder({
    customId: "/remember/:date",
    types: [ResponderType.Button], cache: "cached",
    async run(interaction, { date }){ // "1780301472577"
        console.log(new Date(date)) // Date Mon Jun 01 2026
    }
});

But be careful not to create an infinite loop:

createResponder({
    customId: "/foo/bar",
    types: [ResponderType.Button], cache: "cached",
    async run(interaction){
        emitResponder("/foo/bar", interaction);
    }
});