Created a per-post hitcount as well a writedata() function that can

write to a particular index or to a whole data type

src/data.js

@@ -5,6 +5,26 @@ const func = require('./functions.js')
 const config = require("../config.json")
 const fs = require("fs")
 
+// Literally just +1 to the hitcount
+export function increment_hitcount(postID = -1) { // -1 Means it will increment the timeline hitcount
+    if (config.data_storage == 'json') {
+	if (postID == -1) {
+		let hitcount = getdata('hitcount');
+		hitcount += 1
+		writedata('hitcount', hitcount);
+	}
+	else {
+		let post = getdata('posts', postID);
+		if (typeof post.hitcount != 'undefined') {
+			post.hitcount += 1;
+			writedata('posts', post, postID)
+			return 0
+		}
+		return 1
+	}
+    }
+};
+
 export function searchdata(term, type) { // Searches users and posts for any matches
 	let search_results = {"posts": [], "users": []};
 	// Search users
@@ -101,3 +121,30 @@ export function getdata(data, index=-1) {
 		});
 	}
 }
+
+export function writedata(data, data_to_write, index=-1) {
+	if (config["data_storage"] == "json") {
+		if (data == "posts" || data == 'users' || data == 'comments') {
+			if (index == -1) {
+				fs.writeFileSync(`../data/${data}.json`, JSON.stringify(data_to_write), 'utf-8')
+				return 0
+			}
+			else if (index >= 0) {
+				let result = getdata(data);
+				result[index] = data_to_write;
+				fs.writeFileSync(`../data/${data}.json`, JSON.stringify(result), 'utf-8')
+				return 0
+			}
+			return 1
+		}
+		else if (data == "hitcount") {
+			let other_data = func.require_module('../data/data.json') // This file is actually called data.json
+			other_data.hitcount = data_to_write
+			fs.writeFileSync('../data/data.json', JSON.stringify(other_data), 'utf-8')
+		}
+		else {
+			console.log("Error, invalid requested")
+			return 1
+		}
+	}
+}

src/functions.js

@@ -124,12 +124,3 @@ export function render_md(content) {
     return md.render(content)
 };
 
-// Literally just +1 to the hitcount
-export function increment_hitcount() {
-    if (config.data_storage == 'json') {
-        let other_data = require('../data/data.json');
-        other_data.hitcount += 1
-        console.log(`/ Is loaded, hitcount: ${other_data.hitcount}`)
-        fs.writeFileSync(`../data/data.json`, `${JSON.stringify(other_data)}`, 'utf-8');
-    }
-};

src/routes/standard_pages.js

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ const router = express.Router();
 router.get("/", (req,res) => {
     // Increment the hitcount
     if (config.enable_hitcount) {
-        func.increment_hitcount()
+        data.increment_hitcount()
     }
 
     res.render("pages/timeline",
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ router.get("/user/:username", (req, res) => {
 router.get("/post/:post_index", (req, res) => {
     const postID = parseInt(req.params.post_index)
     let post = data.getdata('posts', postID)
+    if (config.enable_hitcount) {
+	data.increment_hitcount(postID)
+    }
     if (post == 1) { // data.getdata returns error code 1 if nothing is available
         res.render("partials/message", {
             message: locale.post_doesnt_exist,

views/headers/site_wide.ejs

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <a href="/"><%= locale.home_page %></a> 
 <a href="/index/pages"><%= locale.site_index %></a> 
 <a href="<%= config.new_post_url %>"><%= locale.new_post %></a>
-<form method="GET" action="/search" style="display: inline"><label>Search: </label><input type="text" placeholder="🔍" name="q"><input type="submit" value="Submit"></form>
+<form method="GET" action="/search" style="display: inline"><input type="text" placeholder="🔍" name="q"><input type="submit" value="Search"></form>
 <br/>
 <%- config.seperator %>

views/posts/post.ejs

@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
     <div id="post-editdate">
         <i><%= locale.last_modified %>: <%= func.unix_time_to_date_format(post.pubdate) %></i><br/>
     </div>
+    <% if (config.enable_hitcount == true) { %>
+    <div id='post-hitcount'>
+	Hitcount: <%- post.hitcount %>
+    </div>
+    <% } %>
 </div>
 
 <div id="post-commentform">