Server side datastore

This week's assignment was to add a database to a previous assignment using NEDB.

I chose my assignment from the second week, where I made a chat application that employed the use of a statistical model called a Markov chain to always add a few extra words at the end of each message that's being sent.

I started by just adding the database so users could always see the previous messages. But then I wondered if it would be interesting to have the statistical model run not on pre-determined text like before, but on the same chat messages that were being sent. I felt like it made sense — we can only use those building blocks that we already have, but we keep remixing them by recognizing patterns in them.

So I adjusted the code to do just that. While it is weird at the beginning and not so coherent when you don't have a lot of building blocks, it gets more interesting the more words and sentences you give it. It might even uncover something about the way we structure our own sentences?

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