Updated system to read configuration settings from a centralized config file rather than random files or hard coded parameters.

config.json

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+  "PORT": 8000,
+
+  "SESSION_SECRET": "random-data-to-seed-session-data",
+
+  "SQL_HOST": "sql-hostname",
+  "SQL_DATABASE": "sql-database-name",
+  "SQL_USER": "sql-user",
+  "SQL_PASSWORD": "sql-password"
+}

server.js

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
  * appropriate pages.
  */
 
+// Stores the configuration for the server
+const config = require('./utils/configLoader').getConfig();
+
 //http server
 const http = require('http');
 
@@ -31,14 +34,11 @@ const map = require('./utils/generateSiteMap.js');
 map.main();
 
 
-//port for the server to run on
-const port = 8000;
-
 //session data for login
 const session = require('express-session');
 
 //Initializes sessions for login
-app.use(session({ secret: utils.getFileLine('../session_secret'), cookie: { maxAge: 6000000 }}));
+app.use(session({ secret: config.SESSION_SECRET, cookie: { maxAge: 6000000 }}));
 
 
 const projects = ["/steam/"];
@@ -99,6 +99,4 @@ app.use(function(request, result)
 app.use(compression());
 
 
-http.createServer(app).listen(port);
-
-
+http.createServer(app).listen(config.PORT);

utils/configLoader.js

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+const utils = require('../utils/utils');
+
+
+/**
+ * @author Jeffery Russell 11-24-18
+ *
+ * @type {{main: module.exports.main}}
+ */
+module.exports=
+    {
+
+        /**
+         *
+         * @returns {*|any}
+         */
+        getConfig: function()
+        {
+            const configContents = ["PORT", "SESSION_SECRET",
+                "SQL_HOST", "SQL_DATABASE", "SQL_PASSWORD"];
+
+            var config = utils.getFileAsJSON("./config.json");
+
+            for(var i = 0; i < configContents.length; i++)
+            {
+                if(!config.hasOwnProperty(configContents[i]))
+                {
+                    console.log("Missing config property: " + configContents[i]);
+                    process.exit(1);
+                }
+            }
+            return config;
+        }
+    }

utils/sql.js

@@ -1,20 +1,30 @@
+/**
+ * Boated file which handles all the SQL
+ * queries ran by the server
+ *
+ * @author Jeffery Russell
+ */
+
 const mysql = require('mysql');
 
+/** Sanitizer to clean user inputs and prevent SQL injections */
 const sanitizer = require('sanitizer');
 
-const Promise = require('promise');
-
+/** Crypto package used for hashing */
 const crypto = require('crypto');
 
+/** Used to parse post data */
 const qs = require('querystring');
 
-const utils = require('../utils/utils.js');
+/** Used to load the config file from the disk */
+const config = require('../utils/configLoader').getConfig();
 
+/** SQL connection */
 const con = mysql.createConnection({
-    host: "localhost",
-    user: "blog_user",
-    password: utils.getFileLine('../sql_secret'),
-    database: "jrtechs_blog"
+    host: config.SQL_HOST,
+    user: config.SQL_USER,
+    password: config.SQL_PASSWORD,
+    database: config.SQL_DATABASE
 });
 
 

utils/utils.js

@@ -51,6 +51,17 @@ module.exports=
     },
 
 
+    /**
+     *
+     * @param fileName
+     * @returns {any}
+     */
+    getFileAsJSON: function(fileName)
+    {
+        return JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(fileName, 'utf8'));
+    },
+
+
     /**
      * Returns all the contents of a file as a single line
      * with no break lines.