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8.5: Saving Data to JSON File with Node.js - Programming with Text

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In this video, I discuss how to work with a very simple database with in the API example using local JSON files and the node.js "fs"(file-system) package. Next video: https://youtu.be/4zr8j-jeU_M http://shiffman.net/a2z/node-api/ To know more on this subject, visit my material on Server-side Programming and Node: http://shiffman.net/a2z/server-node/ Course url: http://shiffman.net/a2z/ Support this channel on Patreon: https://patreon.com/codingtrain Send me your questions and coding challenges!: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Rainbow-Topics Contact: https://twitter.com/shiffman GitHub Repo with all the info for Programming from A to Z: https://github.com/shiffman/A2Z-F16 Links discussed in this session: Node.js: https://nodejs.org/ Node.js "fs" Documentation: https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html Express.js: http://expressjs.com/ Source Code for the all Video Lessons: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Rainbow-Code p5.js: https://p5js.org/ Processing: https://processing.org For More Programming from A to Z videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman/playlists?shelf_id=11&view=50&sort=dd For More Coding Challenges: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZiZxtDDRCi6uhfTH4FilpH Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/0WvN/ 📄 Code of Conduct: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Code-of-Conduct

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820.508, 'text': 'Thank you for your word.', 'start': 819.346, 'duration': 1.162}, {'end': 823.875, 'text': 'And if I go back and I look at that, we can see there we go.', 'start': 820.849, 'duration': 3.026}, {'end': 829.625, 'text': 'So every time I go to that route, it rewrites the entire file with the current list of words.', 'start': 824.295, 'duration': 5.33}], 'summary': "Demonstrating adding 'purple' and 'pink' with numbers to a file, rewriting the entire file with the current list of words.", 'duration': 35.099, 'max_score': 794.526, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/6iZiqQZBQJY/pics/6iZiqQZBQJY794526.jpg'}, {'end': 859.092, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 830.891, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 835.115, 'text': 'Every time I quit the server and start the server back up, it reads the list of words.', 'start': 830.891, 'duration': 4.224}, {'end': 837.336, 'text': 'So this is the full round trip.', 'start': 835.335, 'duration': 2.001}, {'end': 841.8, 'text': "There's lots of inefficiencies and issues, again, with scalability and privacy.", 'start': 837.356, 'duration': 4.444}, {'end': 849.086, 'text': 'But this works for a simple project where you just want to save a high score list or a table of words in their sentiment score.', 'start': 842.08, 'duration': 7.006}, {'end': 850.427, 'text': 'You can do some of this.', 'start': 849.466, 'duration': 0.961}, {'end': 854.691, 'text': "And I'm sure you can imagine some other scenarios where just this basic idea is plenty good enough.", 'start': 850.447, 'duration': 4.244}, {'end': 859.092, 'text': 'Let me say another few things about this, though, before I move to the end of this video.', 'start': 855.091, 'duration': 4.001}], 'summary': 'Server process reads list of words, showing scalability issues. suitable for high score/sentiment score storage.', 'duration': 28.201, 'max_score': 830.891, 'thumbnail': 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947.581, 'text': 'So I did sort of a very awkward thing where my variables all have the same name, but this will actually should work.', 'start': 942.24, 'duration': 5.341}, {'end': 950.342, 'text': "So let's restart the server one time.", 'start': 947.962, 'duration': 2.38}], 'summary': 'Frequent api requests require matching data for efficient processing. redundant but useful information added.', 'duration': 27.685, 'max_score': 922.657, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/6iZiqQZBQJY/pics/6iZiqQZBQJY922657.jpg'}, {'end': 1008.204, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 992.276, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 999.88, 'text': "So I've still got more to do in terms of building this API, which is actually get some text and produce a sentiment score.", 'start': 992.276, 'duration': 7.604}, {'end': 1000.6, 'text': 'I need to look at.', 'start': 999.9, 'duration': 0.7}, {'end': 1004.842, 'text': 'well, how would I build a client, a front end, that would 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