Helper Functions.txt

const getRandom = function(min, max) {
            return Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min) ) + min;
        }
        
        
        const registerFakeUser = function(gender, email) {
            
            // Checks if you should use a female name or male name.
            if(gender == "f") {
                var firstName = femaleNames[getRandom(0, femaleNames.length - 1)];
            } else {
                var firstName = maleNames[getRandom(0, maleNames.length - 1)];
            }
            
            // The last name is independent of the users gender.
            lastName = familyNames[getRandom(0, familyNames.length - 1)];
            
            // This function will return a promise.  The promise gets resolved when the user is saved successfully. 
            return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
                
                // Create the user user
                let user = new User();
                user.name = firstName + " " + lastName;
                user.email = email;
                
                // The email follows the same pattern as the name of the images I am using.  That's why I'm setting the profile_image to the, "email".
                user.profile_image = email;
                
                // All users have the same password, "f".  It will allow us to log into any account we want.
                user.setPassword("f");
                user.save((err, user) => {
                    if(err) { reject(); return res.json({err: err}) }
                    resolve(user);
                });
            });
        }