Took a node tutorial that involved spinning up an Express server and MongoDB — I didn’t really finish
Realized the node is a “runtime environment” — which basically means I can call node from my console to run javascript — so I used this to try to read the bible.txt file I am parsing // it didn’t work
Paired with Douglass and made a lot of progress on Advice Column God
Was able to get fs.readFile working (it required an err argument as part of the callback)
watched Douglass write a reduce function to quickly find the longest word in a string
wrote a json object to a json file (this is our primary data structure for the ask g-d project) we did the variable assignment rigth from the writeFile function!
Douglass suggested I use the getElementById function only once, and then use variable names thereafter
Objects should be defined with const to protect them from being completely overriden, they can still be modified
Douglass also showed me how to use replace & regex on strings in javascript, which was powerful & useful
We ran into some issues with our textarea object — basically the inner html was set to whitespace bc I had space between my text area tags