Comments now have their own pages, at /comment/commentID, these are

linked to when someone replies to another comment (>> id), I also fixed
a bug in comment submission where the counter was not incrementing

src/functions.js

@@ -61,6 +61,18 @@ export function get_userID(username) {
 	}
 	return -1 // If user is not present, return -1
 }
+
+export function get_comment(commentID) { // TODO scales like shit
+    const comments = require("../data/comments.json")
+	for (let i = 0; i < comments.comments.length; i++) { // Loop over every post
+        for (let j = 0; j < comments.comments[i].length; j++) { // Then every comment in that post
+            if (comments.comments[i][j]["id"] == commentID) {
+                return comments.comments[i][j]
+            };
+        }
+	}
+	return -1 // If comment is not present, return -1
+}
 // This escapes some potentially dangerous HTML characters with their HTML entities
 // https://www.freeformatter.com/html-entities.html
 // accepts a string
@@ -76,3 +88,13 @@ export function escape_input(input) {
         .replaceAll("%", "&#37;")
     return output
 }
+
+// Render comment content by replacing the >> int with a url link to that comment
+export function render_comment(comment_content) {
+    return comment_content
+            .replaceAll(/>> ([0-9]*)/g, "<a href='/comment/$1'>>> $1</a>")
+            .replaceAll(/>>([0-9]*)/g, "<a href='/comment/$1'>>>$1</a>")
+            .replaceAll(/&gt;&gt; ([0-9]*)/g, "<a href='/comment/$1'>>> $1</a>")
+            .replaceAll(/&gt;&gt;([0-9]*)/g, "<a href='/comment/$1'>>>$1</a>")
+            .replaceAll("\n", "<br/>")
+};