So I'm working on a game and I chose nodeBB because of its customization ability and being in javascript (easy to edit and manipulate). I currently use the docker version to rollout nodebb with wordpress. Before I continue the docker version was pretty complicated to set up with lack of directions but I got it up and running.

I need to know if I did something a good or bad way. I currently have a restful api that has all the items in json format (over 3000 items). So essentially what I did was when nodebb is installed it reads that api and places them in public/items/ individually instead of all items being in one json file. I felt this was way faster then reading the entire json file for every single item.

I modified an extended version of a plugin that supported bbcodes (to lazy to write me own). I considered using mongoDB but the information doesn't change so i felt this was a utterly waste.

			if (typeof (code) !== "undefined") {
				let item_id = code;
				const itemPath = path.join(__dirname, "../../../app/public/items/"+ item_id +".json");
				try {
					if (fs.existsSync(itemPath)) {
						let rawItemData = fs.readFileSync(itemPath);
						let itemData = JSON.parse(rawItemData.toString());
						return `<img src="http://api.delteria.com/resource/${itemData.properties.icon}" alt="Avatar" class="avatar"><span class="extended-markdown-tooltip" data-toggle="tooltip" title="${itemData.properties.description}"><span style="color: ${getRarity(itemData.controllerProperties.rarity)};">${itemData.properties.itemName}</span></span>`;
					}
				} catch(err) {
					console.error(err)
				}

Here is the progress

Should I have done this differently?