Problems for JSON file

[Le-Gamer-2345]

Hello, I have a problem … I have a bot Discord, with a system of money and XP, so I have 2 file .JSON but when I win for example 2 corners, my bot will record that I have 2 more corners, but will not write it in his .JSON file, it will write that when I will restart it … And if I do the command to know how many corners I have before restarting, he will not tell me that I got 2 more …
Please, help me!
Sincerely Black Shadow

[mishavee]

Hi, I think these answers will help a little.

My JSON files keeps breaking when writing for some reason

You want to make sure that while the file is being read, it is not at the same time being written to, if so its likely to read empty. And not being written to while at the same time being written to by another change. And not being written to after being written to but since the corresponding read. This is called locking, and is part of the process of writing your own database code. Instead, you could use a database package where it has all been done for you.

@mishavee

So, considering databases, if you have a look at Glitch: The friendly community where everyone builds the web, there are two JSON databases that can be hosted inside the Glitch project, lowdb and NeDB. The storage space will compete with your code space and other files.

An option for hosting outside of the Glitch project is MLAB’s MongoDB, which gives 500MB storage on their free tier. There is even a free course on FreeCodeCamp showing how to connect it all together.