debug duplicate posts

node_app/JSONdataStore.js

@@ -16,9 +16,10 @@ export function loadData(path) {
     }
 }
 export function getStat(path) {
-    fs.stat(path, (err, stat) => {
+    try {
-        if(err == null) return true;
+        return fs.existsSync(path) === true;
-        if(err.code === 'ENOENT') return false;
+    } catch(err) {
-        return err.code;
+        console.error(err)
-    });
+        return false;
+    }
 }

node_app/mastodonMemeBot.js

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ export class mastodonMemeBot {
                 return;
             }
             let filepath = `./media/${sub.url.split(/[/]+/).pop()}`;
-            if (getStat(filepath) === true) {
+            if (getStat(filepath)) {
                 console.log("post already exists, fetching new sub");
                 this.postRandomMeme(callback);
                 return;