Moved config loading to its own proper module

freechat-client/js/config.js

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+const { ArgumentParser } = require('argparse')
+const fs = require('fs')
+
+/**
+ * @param {ArgumentParset} parser
+ * @returns {Config} { path }
+ */
+function get_config(parser) {
+	const a = parser.parse_args()
+	const defaultcfg = `${process.env.HOME || process.env.USERPROFILE}/.config/freechat/config.json`
+
+	// we'll just assume that the config is there as per the installation process
+	const path = (a['config']) ? a['config'] : defaultcfg
+	const file_contents = fs.readFileSync(path)
+	const file_json = JSON.parse(file_contents)
+
+	// now we'll just blindly construct the config object from here on out
+	let ret = { path: path }
+	for(const key in file_json.keys) {
+		if(key == 'path') { continue } // don't overwrite the old path
+		else {
+			ret[key] = file_json[key]
+		}
+	}
+	return ret
+}
+
+/**
+ * Loads the parse with the various arguments that the program takes
+ * @param {ArgumentParser} parser
+ */
+function load_parser() {
+	const parser = new ArgumentParser({
+		description: 'Freechat Electron Client'
+	})
+	parser.add_argument('-c', '--config', {help: 'Specify config path'})
+	return parser
+}
+
+exports.load_parser = load_parser
+exports.get_config = get_config

freechat-client/main.js

@@ -1,20 +1,18 @@
 const { ArgumentParser } = require('argparse')
 const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron')
 const path = require('path')
-const fs = require('fs')
 
-let win;
-let config;
+const cfg = require('./js/config.js')
+
+
+let win
+const config 	= cfg.get_config(cfg.load_parser())
+console.log('Config: ', config)
 
-const parser = new ArgumentParser({
-	description: 'Freechat Electron Client'
-})
 
-parser.add_argument('-c', '--config', {help: 'Specify config path'})
 
-console.log(parser.parse_args())
 function createWin() {
-	let win = new BrowserWindow({
+	win = new BrowserWindow({
 		width: 800,
 		height: 600,
 		minWidth: 640,
@@ -35,8 +33,6 @@ function createWin() {
 	});
 }
 
-function load_config(config_path) {
-}
 
 app.on('ready', createWin);