There is now a Makefile because I learnt make syntax

src/initialise.js

@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-import { createRequire } from 'module';
-const require = createRequire(import.meta.url)
-// Initialise the program by creating users.js, comments.js, posts.js and config.js
-// All require default content in them to start off with
-// Then exit successfully
-// returns nothing
-export function initialise() {
-    const fs = require("fs");
-    try {
-        const users = require("../data/users.json");
-    }
-    catch (error) {
-        console.log("Creating users file")
-        fs.writeFileSync(`../data/users.json`, `[]`)
-    }
-    try {
-        const posts = require("../data/posts.json");
-    }
-    catch (error) {
-        console.log("Creating posts file")
-        fs.writeFileSync(`../data/posts.json`, `[]`)
-    }
-    try {
-        const comments = require("../data/comments.json");
-    }
-    catch (error) {
-        console.log("Creating comments file")
-        fs.writeFileSync(`../data/comments.json`, `[]`)
-    }
-    try {
-        const comments = require("../data/data.json");
-    }
-    catch (error) {
-        console.log("Creating generic data file")
-        fs.writeFileSync(`../data/data.json`, `{"hitcount": 0}`)
-    }
-    try {
-        const config = require("../config.json");
-    }
-    catch (error) {
-        console.log("Copying the example config to config.js")
-        console.log("!!! PLEASE MODIFY config.json TO YOUR NEEDS !!!")
-        fs.copyFile('../example-config.json', '../config.json', (err) => {
-            console.log("Error copying file")
-        })
-    }
-
-    console.log("Successfully initialised")
-    process.exit(0)
-}

src/server.js

@@ -10,15 +10,8 @@ const { fromUnixTime, format, getUnixTime } = require("date-fns") // A date util
 const ejs = require("ejs")
 const func = require("./functions.js")
 const data = require("./data.js")
-const init = require("./initialise.js")
 
 
-// There's only one possible argument, so we can just check if the user passed that one
-// TODO I plan on adding more such as --help and --post so I should make this more robust at some point
-if (process.argv[2] == "--first-time") {
-    init.initialise() // Creates any files such users.js, posts.js, comments.js or config.js if they are not present
-}
-
 // Define the modules now so they are global
 let users // contains a list of users, each user is an object containing username,prettyname,hash and description
 let posts // contains a list of posts,
@@ -37,7 +30,7 @@ if (config["data_storage"] == "json") {
 	    // if they don't all import then 
 	    // inform the user to pass --first-time and exit with an error code
 	    console.log("A file is missing!")
-	    console.log("Run with --first-time to initialise the program")
+	    console.log("Run 'make' to initialise the data files")
 	    console.log(error)
 	    process.exit(1)
 	}