➕ More comprehensive example user config

➕ Moving main.js to use more async code and make things a bit more homogeneous

freechat-client/example-dev-config.json

@@ -1,22 +1,23 @@
 {
   "servers": [
     {
-			"name": "cool1",
-			"domain": "freechat.shockrah.io",
-			"ip": "0.0.0.0",
-			"description": "really good",
-			"key": "this right here is the secret for that user",
-			"username": "this is optional per server"
+      "server": {
+        "description": "Server for sick development things",
+        "hostname": "localhost",
+        "name": "Freechat Sample Server",
+        "port": 4536,
+        "protocol": "http"
       },
-		{
-			"name": "another one"
-		},
-		{
-			"name": "shockrah's lair"
+      "user": {
+        "id": 1,
+        "joindate": 1615187538,
+        "name": "shockrah",
+        "permissions": 51,
+        "secret": "ooky-spooky-base64-string===",
+        "status": 0
+      }
     }
   ],
-
-	"ignore-me": "global's like this are mainly for default configuration things",
-	"global-username": "shockrah",
-	"global-proxy": "one day this will be a thing but not today"
+  "username": "shockrah"
 }
+

freechat-client/main.js

@@ -1,12 +1,21 @@
 const { ipcMain } = require('electron')
 const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron')
+const { ArgumentParser } = require('argparse')
 const path = require('path')
 
-const cfg = require('./src/config.js')
+const { Config, from_cli_parser } = require('./src/config.js')
+
+const arguments = (() => {
+	const parser = new ArgumentParser({
+		description: 'Freechat client'
+	})
+	parser.add_argument('-c', '--config', {help: 'Specify config path'})
+	return parser
+})()
 
 
 let win
-let config 	= cfg.get_config(cfg.load_parser())
+let config = from_cli_parser(arguments)
 
 // NOTE: this line is only here for demonstration as the current make script exposes this var
 // so that we can test against self signed certificates but still use ssl
@@ -50,14 +59,14 @@ app.on('activate', () => {
 	}
 });
 
-// returns the config
+// returns the in-memory config reference
 ipcMain.handle('config-request', async function(event, _arg) {
 	return config;
 })
 
 
-ipcMain.handle('config-update', function(event, data) {
-	config = data; 
-	cfg.update_file(data, data['path']);
+ipcMain.handle('config-update', async function(event, updated_config) {
+	config = new Config(updated_config.path, updated_config.data)
+	await config.write_disk()
 })