Discordjs 14.7.1 Skips First Reaction - discord

Question

Problem is the Discord bot is skipping the first reaction emoji.
If I un-react and re-react with the same emoji, then the bot registers it.
I've been trying to figure this out for a while, and am stumped as to what I am missing in my logic or if I need to find another solution.
Intention:
Discord bot gathers and prints out all reactions to a message by a user
Relevant Information:
Discordjs 14.7.1
Discord Developer Website:
Presence Intent: Enabled
Server Members Intent: Enabled
Message Content Intent: Enabled
Code:
const { Client, Events, GatewayIntentBits, Partials } = require('discord.js');
const { token } = require('./includes/config.json');
// create a new discord client
const client = new Client({
intents: [
GatewayIntentBits.DirectMessageReactions,
GatewayIntentBits.DirectMessageTyping,
GatewayIntentBits.DirectMessages,
GatewayIntentBits.GuildMembers,
GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessageReactions,
GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages,
GatewayIntentBits.Guilds,
GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent,
],
partials: [
Partials.Channel,
Partials.GuildMember,
Partials.Message,
Partials.Reaction,
Partials.User,
]
});
// ready
client.once(Events.ClientReady, () => {
console.log('Ready!');
});
// if partial, fetch full
client.on(Events.MessageReactionAdd, async (reaction, user) => {
if (reaction.partial) {
try {
await reaction.fetch();
} catch (error) {
console.error(error);
return;
}
}
// define the message component
const message = reaction.message;
// all userReactions by user.id
const userReactions = await message.reactions.cache.filter(reaction => reaction.users.cache.has(user.id));
// print emojis
try {
for (const reaction of userReactions.values()) {
console.log(`Emoji: ${reaction.emoji}`);
}
} catch(error) {
console.error(error);
}
})
// login
client.login(token);
Problem:
The bot is not registering the first reaction placed
Example:
- I react to a message in this order: 😄❤️🔥
- the logfile shows:
Emoji: ❤️
Emoji: ❤️
Emoji: 🔥
Expected result:
Emoji: 😄
Emoji: 😄
Emoji: ❤️
Emoji: 😄
Emoji: ❤️
Emoji: 🔥
Observations:
I noticed that the bot works fine for all messages sent after it is running
The problematic behaviour is experienced only for messages sent before the bot was running
Conclusion:
MessageReactionAdd() does get called, as tested by placing 'console.log(test output); statements. I learned that it works on cached messages only, which I thought was mitigated by fetching the full reaction. Such was not the case. I tried testing by forcing a message fetch manually by channel.id and message.id, it still did not work.
My Solution:
Used an sqlite database to keep track of reactions.
From within MessageReactionAdd() I was able to check for the reactions I was interested in logging, and added them to an sqlite database.
Within an equivalent MessageReactionRemove() section, I was able to check for removal of the reactions and delete the pertinent row from the database.
Thank you for reading and assisting. :)