started implementing data functions for easy requests to data

src/data.js

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+import { createRequire } from "module";
+const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
+
+const config = require("../config.json")
+const fs = require("fs")
+
+export function getdata(data) {
+
+	if (config["data_storage"] == "json") {
+		if (data == "posts" || data == "users") {
+			let result = require(`../data/${data}.json`)
+			return result
+		}
+		else if (data == "comments") {
+			let result = require("../data/comments.json")
+			return result.comments
+		}
+		else if (data == "hitcount") {
+			let result = fs.readFileSync("../data/hitcount.txt")
+			return result
+		}
+		else {
+			console.log("Error, invalid requested")
+			return 1
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (config["data_storage"] == "mysql") {
+		const mysql = require('mysql'); 
+		let con = mysql.createConnection({
+		  host: config.database.host,
+		  user: config.database.user,
+		  password: config.database.password,
+		  database: config.database.database,
+		});
+
+		con.connect(function(err) {
+			if (err) throw err;
+
+			if (data == "posts" || data == 'users' || data == 'comments') {
+				con.query(`SELECT * FROM ${data}`, function (err, result, fields) {
+					if (err) throw err;
+					console.log(result)
+					return result;
+				});
+			}
+			else if (data == 'hitcount') {
+				con.query(`SELECT paramValue FROM params WHERE paramName = '${data}'`, function (err, result, fields) {
+					if (err) throw err;
+					console.log(result)
+					return result;
+				});
+
+			}
+		});
+	}
+}