What is the .data directory?

[pantheonsh]

Title. Also, can I write to it programmatically?

[funkydan2]

Yes, you can write to it programatically. There was a short discussion about this yesterday:

Sqlite db file help

i have a question here regarding the sqlite db files that have extension of .sqlite. currently i started to use github to import all my updated files after using atom to commit into github so basically my dev process is something like this atom -> github -> glitch. in this case, Glitch will keep on replacing my .sqlite file which causes my db to reset everytime i import from github to glitch and if i don’t include the .sqlite file on my github, after import, glitch will have everything repla…

It’s a directory where you can store persistent data. It isn’t copied when your project is remixed or exported to GitHub.