Add a reference to the telegraf bot instance to the telegrafContext

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Trying to write a middleware that wants to access the bots api currently requires you to pass the instance of the bot to the middlewares constructor. It would be easier if the bot would be available in every context that is passed to the middleware handler.

Describe the solution you’d like Add a reference to the telegraf bot instance to TelegrafContext

bot.use((ctx, next)=>{
  console.log(ctx.bot);
  next();
});

Describe alternatives you’ve considered The alternative would be something like (in case the middleware is not living inside the scope of the bots creation)

bot.use(((bot)=>(ctx, next)=>{
  console.log(bot);
  next();
})(bot));

[wojpawlik]

bot.context.bot = bot

[lucaelin]

Yes something like that. Not entirely useful with this example because the middleware already gets everything ever send to the bot, but in my case I want to modify the inner workings of the bot upon request… It’s not like that it is impossible right now, I just think that this addition would make some code a little nicer.