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Title: Index
Date: 2019-05-30 00:00
Date: 2019-06-26 00:00
Category: Page
Slug: index
Lang: en
## Overview
**L**ocal **F**ile **S**ystem **A**ccess (**LFSA**) is:
* a tiny web server to allow client side JS access to local file system
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* a single Python file
* released under [CC0][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 may use LFSA to keep data locally so that you could have complete control of your data.
[PSKOV][pskov] static site generator is the first CSWA to use LFSA.
## Install
## Download LFSA
If you use Linux or macOS released after 2005 (yes, 2005), you only need to [download lfsa_1.0.0.py][lfsa-local].
Download [lfsa_1.0.0.py][lfsa-local].
If you use Windows 2000 or newer (excluding Windows ME), you need to:
If you use Linux or macOS, you're all set.
* [download][python] and install Python 2.3 or newer
* [download lfsa_1.0.0.py][lfsa-local]
## Install Python (Windows only)
## Run
<video controls poster="../vid/download-install-python.poster.png">
<source src="../vid/download-install-python.mp4" type ="video/mp4">
<source src="../vid/download-install-python.webm" type ="video/webm">
ERROR Your browser does not support HTML5 video
</video>
If you use Linux or macOS, run LFSA in terminal this way:
Windows doesn't have Python installed by default, you have to [install Python yourself][python] to be able to run LFSA.
**Note**: the video depicts Python 2.3.4 installation under Windows 2000, use the latest Python available for your version of Windows.
## Run LFSA
### Linux and macOS
<video controls poster="../vid/run-lfsa.macos.poster.png">
<source src="../vid/run-lfsa.macos.mp4" type ="video/mp4">
<source src="../vid/run-lfsa.macos.webm" type ="video/webm">
ERROR Your browser does not support HTML5 video
</video>
If you use Linux or macOS, run LFSA in terminal:
```
/path/to/lfsa_1.0.0.py /path/to/dir
```
Here's how it looks like on macOS Mojave:
### Windows
![LFSA on macOS Mojave][lfsa-on-macos]
<video controls poster="../vid/run-lfsa.w2k.poster.png">
<source src="../vid/run-lfsa.w2k.mp4" type ="video/mp4">
<source src="../vid/run-lfsa.w2k.webm" type ="video/webm">
ERROR Your browser does not support HTML5 video
</video>
If you use Windows, run LFSA in [CMD][cmd] this way:
If you use Windows, run LFSA in [CMD][cmd]:
```
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:
![LFSA on Windows 2000][lfsa-on-windows]
## Durability
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.
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[lfsa-local]: ../lfsa_1.0.0.py
[python]: https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/
[cmd]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmd.exe
[lfsa-on-macos]: ../img/lfsa-on-macos.png
[lfsa-on-windows]: ../img/lfsa-on-windows.png
[cc0]: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/