Wrote the news rendering module

server/index.js

@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ let path = require('path');
 
 app.use(bodyParser.json());
 
+//handle the news request
+let news = require('./news.js');
+app.post('/newsrequest', news.newsRequest());
+
 //database
 let { connectToDatabase } = require('./database.js');
 let connection = connectToDatabase(); //uses .env

server/news.js

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+//environment variables
+require('dotenv').config();
+
+//libraries
+let fs = require('fs');
+let path = require('path');
+
+const newsRequest = () => (req, res) => {
+	let fpath = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'public', 'news');
+	let fileNames = fs.readdirSync(fpath);
+
+	//set the maximum
+	let max = parseInt(req.body.max);
+	if (max > fileNames.length) {
+		max = fileNames.length;
+	}
+
+	//build the object to send
+	let json = {}
+
+	//send each file as json
+	for (let i = 0; i < max; i++) {
+		json[fileNames[fileNames.length - i - 1]] = fs.readFileSync(fpath + '\\' + fileNames[fileNames.length - i - 1], 'utf8');
+	}
+
+	//actually send the data
+	res.json(json);
+	res.end();
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+	newsRequest: newsRequest
+}