refactored into a node module

Database/dbcontroller.ts

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+import Database from 'better-sqlite3';
+import { open } from 'sqlite'
+
+// this is a top-level await 
+(async () => {
+    // open the database
+    const db = await open({
+      filename: '/tmp/database.db',
+      driver: Database
+    })
+})()