plugged in feeaturd posts into template

brain/api/v1/settings.js

@@ -48,10 +48,10 @@ router.post('/sync', (req, res) => {
 						message: 'Settings Saved'
 					});
 				})
-				.catch(() => {
+				.catch(err => {
 					res.json({
 						type: DataEvent.REQUEST_LAME,
-						message: "You're not logged in, champ"
+						message: "Uh oh. Settings didn't take, sport"
 					});
 				});
 		})

brain/data/Render.js

@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ export default class Render {
 					let rendered = 0;
 					let display_count = 0;
 					let recent = [];
+					let featured = _.filter(pages, page => {
+						return (
+							page.metadata.deleted === false &&
+							page.metadata.published === true &&
+							page.metadata.featured === true
+						);
+					});
 					for (let index = 0; index < pages.length; index++) {
 						pages.sort((a, b) => parseFloat(b.metadata.id) - parseFloat(a.metadata.id));
 
@@ -52,6 +59,7 @@ export default class Render {
 								display_count = ++display_count;
 							}
 							let writeFile, template;
+
 							let path =
 								'public/' +
 								moment(page.metadata.created).format('YYYY') +
@@ -91,6 +99,7 @@ export default class Render {
 								});
 							}
 							buffed = new StringUtils().decodeHTML(buffed);
+
 							let html = md.render(buffed, { html: true, xhtmlOut: true });
 							let file = pug.renderFile(template, {
 								title: page.metadata.title,
@@ -99,6 +108,7 @@ export default class Render {
 								tags: tags,
 								menu: config.menu,
 								recent_posts: recent,
+								featured_posts: featured,
 								meta: {
 									who: author,
 									when: moment(page.metadata.created).fromNow(),

brain/data/Settings.js

@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ export default class Settings {
 			self.loadConfigData()
 				.then(result => {
 					let payload = req.body;
+					//so payload matches loaded config
+					payload.global.display_limit = result.settings.global.display_limit;
+					payload.global.last_backup = result.settings.global.last_backup;
 					let user = req.session.user;
 					let found = _.find(result.folks, { id: user.id });
 					let needToUpdate = false;
@@ -44,7 +47,6 @@ export default class Settings {
 						};
 						reject(response);
 					}
-
 					if (!_.isEqual(result.settings.global, payload.global)) {
 						let bg = payload.global.background;
 						payload.global.background = bg.substr(21, bg.length);