Add development helpers

README.md

@@ -250,6 +250,22 @@ Following extensions can be used to automatically redirect Quora URLs to Quetre:
 - [digitalblossom/alternative-frontends](https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends): contains other alternative front-ends.
 - [mendel5/alternative-front-ends](https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends): a bit more general, containing alternative clients too.
 
+### Development Helpers
+
+Running any one of:
+
+- `/fetchers/fetcher.js`
+
+- `/fetchers/getAnswers.js`
+
+- `/fetchers/getProfile.js`
+
+- `/fetchers/getTopic.js`
+
+with `node` and an argument will log the returned data to console. For example:
+
+- `node fetchers/fetcher.js What-is-the-Linux-Web-Hosting`
+
 ---
 
 ## Credits

fetchers/fetcher.js

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import * as cheerio from 'cheerio';
 import axiosInstance from '../utils/axiosInstance.js';
 import AppError from '../utils/AppError.js';
+import { basename } from '../utils/misc.js'
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 //                     FUNCTION
@@ -52,3 +53,7 @@ const fetcher = async resourceStr => {
 //                     EXPORTS
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 export default fetcher;
+
+if (process.argv.length == 3 && basename(process.argv[1]) == 'fetcher.js') {
+  console.log(await fetcher(process.argv[2]))
+}

fetchers/getAnswers.js

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 // import log from '../utils/log.js';
 import AppError from '../utils/AppError.js';
 import fetcher from './fetcher.js';
+import { basename } from '../utils/misc.js'
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 //                     FUNCTION
@@ -88,3 +89,7 @@ const getAnswers = async slug => {
 //                     EXPORTS
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 export default getAnswers;
+
+if (process.argv.length == 3 && basename(process.argv[1]) == 'getAnswers.js') {
+  console.log(JSON.stringify(await getAnswers(process.argv[2])))
+}

fetchers/getProfile.js

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 import AppError from '../utils/AppError.js';
 import fetcher from './fetcher.js';
+import { basename } from '../utils/misc.js'
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 //                  HELPER FUNCTIONS
@@ -216,3 +217,7 @@ const getProfile = async slug => {
 //                     EXPORTS
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 export default getProfile;
+
+if (process.argv.length == 3 && basename(process.argv[1]) == 'getProfile.js') {
+  console.log(await getProfile(process.argv[2]))
+}

fetchers/getTopic.js

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 import AppError from '../utils/AppError.js';
 import fetcher from './fetcher.js';
+import { basename } from '../utils/misc.js'
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 //                     FUNCTION
@@ -59,3 +60,7 @@ const getTopic = async slug => {
 //                     EXPORTS
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 export default getTopic;
+
+if (process.argv.length == 3 && basename(process.argv[1]) == 'getTopic.js') {
+  console.log(await getTopic(process.argv[2]))
+}

utils/misc.js

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+export const basename = (path) => {
+   return path.split('/').reverse()[0];
+}