Trends: add some useful comments for later

src/controllers/api/trends.ts

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ const trendingTagsController: AppController = (c) => {
   const yesterday = new Date(now.getTime() - Time.days(1));
   const lastWeek = new Date(now.getTime() - Time.days(7));
 
+  /** Most used hashtags within the past 24h. */
   const tags = trends.getTrendingTags({
     since: yesterday,
     until: now,
@@ -25,6 +26,8 @@ const trendingTagsController: AppController = (c) => {
     name,
     url: Conf.local(`/tags/${name}`),
     history: [
+      // Use the full 24h query for the current day. Then use `offset: 1` to adjust for this below.
+      // This result is more accurate than what Mastodon returns.
       {
         day: String(Math.floor(stripTime(now).getTime() / 1000)),
         accounts: String(accounts),
@@ -37,6 +40,7 @@ const trendingTagsController: AppController = (c) => {
         limit: 6,
         offset: 1,
       }).map((history) => ({
+        // For some reason, Mastodon wants these to be strings... oh well.
         day: String(Math.floor(history.day.getTime() / 1000)),
         accounts: String(history.accounts),
         uses: String(history.uses),

src/trends.ts

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ class TrendsDB {
     cleanup();
   }
 
+  /** Gets the most used hashtags between the date range. */
   getTrendingTags({ since, until, limit = 10, threshold = 3 }: GetTrendingTagsOpts) {
     return this.#db.query<string[]>(
       `
@@ -63,6 +64,10 @@ class TrendsDB {
     }));
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Gets the tag usage count for a specific tag.
+   * It returns an array with counts for each date between the range.
+   */
   getTagHistory({ tag, since, until, limit = 7, offset = 0 }: GetTagHistoryOpts) {
     const result = this.#db.query<string[]>(
       `
@@ -81,11 +86,13 @@ class TrendsDB {
       uses: Number(row[2]),
     }));
 
+    /** Full date range between `since` and `until`. */
     const dateRange = generateDateRange(
       new Date(since.getTime() + Time.days(1)),
       new Date(until.getTime() - Time.days(offset)),
     ).reverse();
 
+    // Fill in missing dates with 0 usages.
     return dateRange.map((day) => {
       const data = result.find((item) => item.day.getTime() === day.getTime());
       return data || { day, accounts: 0, uses: 0 };