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
+		}
+	}
+}