This repository provides starting code to get you set up for completing Advent of Code puzzles using JavaScript.

For comprehensive instructions, see Setting Up a Complete Project.

1. Copy template.js.
2. Modify function process(input) { } in the newly copied file.
3. Save your puzzle input to a text file.
4. Run your JavaScript file passing -f followed by the text file containing the puzzle input.

0. Fork this reposity to your computer
1. Create a folder named after the current year.

• This folder will be referred to as the YEAR directory in these instructions.

2. Save your puzzle input (accessable from the Daily Puzzle page (sample) in a new file in a new folder called YEAR/input.

• It is recommended to name the file after the date. For example, for 2022 Day 01, save the puzzle input in 2022/input/01.txt
• You can save the puzzle input by pressing Ctrl+S on the input page (sample) or by creating a new text file and pasting in the input data.
  • Hint: if copying and pasting, be sure you are using UNIX ecoding for proper \n usage.

3. Copy template.js to a new file named after the date in the year directory.

• You will need to update the import statement from require("./util/inputParser") to require("../util/inputParser")
• For example, for 2022 day 01, copy template.js to 2022/01.js

4. Write your solution code in process(input).
5. Run to see the result with node YEAR/JAVASCRIPT_FILE_NAME -f YEAR/input/DATA_FILE_NAME.txt!

• For example, for 2022 day 01, run node 2022/01 -f 2022/input/01.txt.
• Alternatively, hardcode the path to file in the cliInput.load() call for the file. For example, cliInput.load("2022/input/01.txt") for 2022 day 01.
• The output is what you will submit on the Advent of Code page.

Your final project structure will look like this:

project
│   template.js
│   ... (starting files)
│
└───2022
    │   01.js
    │   ... (other solution files)
    │
    └───input
        │   01.txt
        │   ... (other input files)

• -f PATH/TO/FILE: Parses PATH/TO/FILE's contents and into inputParser.load()'s .then() callback.
• -t "SAMPLE INPUT": Passes the string "SAMPLE INPUT" into inputParser.load()'s .then() callback. Useful for debugging (you can use a smaller input to test functionality).
• -d: Enable debug mode, which will output information about the data being processed