let botmod = staff.get(`${message.author.id}`)
  if (botmod.startsWith !== "Bot")
    return message.channel.send("Unfortunately, you are a server mod. You can't use bot mands.")

The above is an example of me trying to use .startsWith(). However, I don't think I am using it correctly.
It triggers that message, even if the message does have Bot in it.
There are no errors logged in the console.

let botmod = staff.get(`${message.author.id}`)
  if (botmod.startsWith !== "Bot")
    return message.channel.send("Unfortunately, you are a server mod. You can't use bot mands.")

The above is an example of me trying to use .startsWith(). However, I don't think I am using it correctly.
It triggers that message, even if the message does have Bot in it.
There are no errors logged in the console.

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• discord.js

• There's not enough in your post to provide an answer since there's no way to tell what staff.get returns; however, String.prototype.startsWith is a method and needs parentheses. – benbotto Commented Sep 8, 2020 at 22:45
• Documentation is always your friend developer.mozilla/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/… – sinanspd Commented Sep 8, 2020 at 22:46

3 Answers 3

startsWith is a function, you pass the value you want to check and it will return a boolean, so

if (botmod.startsWith("Bot")) 
  ...
} 

It is a function:
If you want the string to start with Bot,

if(botmod.startsWith("Bot")){
  // ...do stuff
}

or If you don't want the string to start with Bot,

if(!botmod.startsWith("Bot")){
  // ...do stuff
}

However, you can only run .startsWith() on Strings.

startsWith returns a boolean. So you want

const foo = 'bar';

if(foo.startsWith('thing')) {
   // do stuff
}