From c0e249ecdd9a86a88d15f93969fa5f1adde2f78f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 22:02:26 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] And now read in saved comments at server start

So we should now have persistent messages across server restarts.
---
 index.js | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 9279c87..5e88926 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -8,7 +8,17 @@ const { Server } = require("socket.io");
 const io = new Server(server);
 const port = 2122;
 
-comments = [];
+const state_file = 'zombocom-state.json'
+
+var comments;
+
+// Load comments at server startup
+fs.readFile(state_file, (err, data) => {
+    if (err)
+        comments = [];
+    else
+        comments = JSON.parse(data);
+});
 
 // Save comments when server is shutting down
 function cleanup() {
-- 
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