diff --git a/freechat-client/src/config.js b/freechat-client/src/config.js
index 67974a6..35a9311 100644
--- a/freechat-client/src/config.js
+++ b/freechat-client/src/config.js
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
+const { ipcRenderer }  = require('electron')
 const { ArgumentParser } = require('argparse')
 const fs = require('fs')
 
 /**
+ * Gets the config data off disk
+ * Because we're calling this from node's process we can actuall us the 'fs' module here
  * @param {ArgumentParset} parser
  * @returns {Config} { path }
  */
-function get_config(parser) {
+exports.get_config = function(parser) {
 
 	const a = parser.parse_args()
 	const defaultcfg = `${process.env.HOME || process.env.USERPROFILE}/.config/freechat/config.json`
@@ -32,11 +35,30 @@ function get_config(parser) {
 	return ret
 }
 
+/**
+ * Updates the config with the new object data
+ * Called from node's main process
+ *
+ * @param {Config} config new config data to write
+ * @param {String} path | set to 'default' if we're using $HOME/.config/freechat/config.json
+ * Set this to anything else to write changes to that specified path
+ */
+exports.update_config = function(config, path='default') {
+	if (path == 'default') {
+		path = `${process.env.HOME || process.env.USERPROFILE}/.config/freechat/config.json`
+	} else {
+		path = path
+	}
+
+	const data = JSON.stringify(config)
+	fs.writeFile(path, data)
+}
+
 /**
  * Loads the parse with the various arguments that the program takes
  * @param {ArgumentParser} parser
  */
-function load_parser() {
+exports.load_parser = function() {
 	const parser = new ArgumentParser({
 		description: 'Freechat Electron Client'
 	})
@@ -44,5 +66,39 @@ function load_parser() {
 	return parser
 }
 
-exports.load_parser = load_parser
-exports.get_config = get_config
+/**
+ * NOTE: can possibly return undefined jwt values
+ *
+ * @param {String} domain | server config to search for jwt + id
+ * @param {String} key | basically are we looking for 'jwt' or 'secret'
+ */
+function get_creds(domain, key) {
+	let serv_id, serv_jwt
+	const config = ipcRenderer.sendSync('config-request')
+	for(const server in config['servers']) {
+		if(server['domain'] === domain) {
+			id = server['id']
+			jwt = server[key]
+		}
+	}
+	return {id: serv_id, jwt: serv_jwt}
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * Attempts to grab the id + jwt values from the config
+ * NOTE: jwt key-value can realistically be undefined, or the JWT can be malformed/expired etc.
+ * @param {String} domain 
+ */
+exports.jwt_creds = function(domain) {
+	return get_creds(domain, 'jwt')
+}
+
+/**
+ * Attempts to pull id + secret values from the config
+ *
+ * @param {String} domain
+ */
+exports.basic_creds = function(domain) {
+	return get_creds(domain , 'secret')
+}