chore: Add more comments and user messages to create-user cmd

config/create-user.js

@@ -10,21 +10,48 @@ const silentExit = (code = 0) => {
 }
 
 (async () => {
+  /**
+   * Connect to the database
+   * - If it takes a while, we'll warn the user
+   */
+  // Warn the user if this is taking a while
+  let timeout = setTimeout(() => {
+    console.orange('This is taking a while... You may need to check your connection if this fails.');
+    timeout = setTimeout(() => {
+      console.orange('Still going... Might as well assume the connection failed...');
+      timeout = setTimeout(() => {
+        console.orange('Error incoming in 3... 2... 1...');
+      }, 13000);
+    }, 10000);
+  }, 5000);
+  // Attempt to connect to the database
+  try {
     console.orange('Warming up the engines...')
     await connectDb();
+    clearTimeout(timeout);
     await migrateDb();
-  // Okay lets show the user some information about what we are doing
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.error(e);
+    silentExit(1);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Show the welcome / help menu
+   */
   console.purple('--------------------------')
-  console.purple('Setup a new user account!')
+  console.purple('Create a new user account!')
   console.purple('--------------------------')
+  // If we don't have enough arguments, show the help menu
+  if (process.argv.length < 5) {
     console.orange('Usage: npm run create-user <email> <name> <username>')
     console.orange('Note: if you do not pass in the arguments, you will be prompted for them.')
     console.orange('If you really need to pass in the password, you can do so as the 4th argument (not recommended for security).')
     console.purple('--------------------------')
+  }
 
-  // These will be passed as arguments to the console
+  /**
-  // node config/create-user.js <name> <email> <username>
+   * Set up the variables we need and get the arguments if they were passed in
-  // lets set them up as variables with some defaults
+   */
   let email = '';
   let password = '';
   let name = '';
@@ -42,6 +69,10 @@ const silentExit = (code = 0) => {
       password = process.argv[5];
     }
   }
+
+  /**
+   * If we don't have the right number of arguments, lets prompt the user for them
+   */
   if (!email) {
     email = await askQuestion('Email:');
   }
@@ -73,16 +104,17 @@ const silentExit = (code = 0) => {
     }
   }
 
-
+  // Validate the user doesn't already exist
-  const user = { email, password, name, username, confirm_password: password };
-  // Let's check if the email or username already exists
   const userExists = await User.findOne({ $or: [{ email }, { username }] });
   if (userExists) {
     console.red('Error: A user with that email or username already exists!');
     silentExit(1);
   }
 
-  // Now lets register the user
+  /**
+   * Now that we have all the variables we need, lets create the user
+   */
+  const user = { email, password, name, username, confirm_password: password };
   let result;
   try {
     result = await registerUser(user);