Deleting all messages in discord.js text channel

Question

Ok, so I searched for a while, but I couldn\'t find any information on how to delete all messages in a discord channel. And by all messages I mean every single message ever writ

Answer 1

Discord does not allow bots to delete more than 100 messages, so you can't delete every message in a channel. You can delete less then 100 messages, using BulkDelete.

Example:

const Discord = require("discord.js");
const client = new Discord.Client();
const prefix = "!";

client.on("ready" () => {
    console.log("Successfully logged into client.");
});

client.on("message", msg => {
    if (msg.content.toLowerCase().startsWith(prefix + "clearchat")) {
        async function clear() {
            msg.delete();
            const fetched = await msg.channel.fetchMessages({limit: 99});
            msg.channel.bulkDelete(fetched);
        }
        clear();
    }
});

client.login("BOT_TOKEN");

Note, it has to be in a async function for the await to work.