Overview
-Local File System Access (LFSA) is:
+Local File System Access (LFSA) is:
- a tiny web server to allow client side JS access to local file system -
- a buildling block for Client Side Web Apps (CSWA) +
- a buildling block for Client Side Web Apps (CSWA)
- a single Python file +
- released under CC0 license (public domain)
CSWA
Client Side Web Apps run solely on your device, they are not related to cloud solutions in any way: nobody can pull the plug on you. -CSWAs use LFSA to keep data at your hard drive, so you have complete control of your data.
+CSWAs may use LFSA to keep data locally so that you could have complete control of your data.PSKOV static site generator is the first CSWA to use LFSA.
Install
-If you use Linux or macOS released after 2005 (yes, 2005), you only need to download lfsa-201905.py.
+If you use Linux or macOS released after 2005 (yes, 2005), you only need to download lfsa_1.0.0.py.
If you use Windows 2000 or newer (excluding Windows ME), you need to:
- download and install Python 2.3 or newer -
- download lfsa-201905.py +
- download lfsa_1.0.0.py
Run
-If you use Linux or macOS, run LFSA in Terminal this way:
-/path/to/lfsa-201905.py /path/to/dir
+If you use Linux or macOS, run LFSA in terminal this way:
+/path/to/lfsa_1.0.0.py /path/to/dir
Here's how it looks like on macOS Mojave:
If you use Windows, run LFSA in CMD this way:
-C:/path/to/Python/installation/python.exe C:/path/to/lfsa-201905.py C:/path/to/dir
+C:/path/to/Python/installation/python.exe C:/path/to/lfsa_1.0.0.py C:/path/to/dir
Here's how it looks like on Windows 2000:
@@ -124,8 +124,9 @@ CSWAs use LFSA to keep data at your hard drive, so you have complete control of
As you noticed, LFSA can run on really old operating systems dating back to 2000. That's intentional: we care about users, so we want to cover as many users as possible.