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Local File System Access (LFSA) for Client Side Web Apps (CSWA)
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<strong id="title">LFSA</strong>
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<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2>
<p><strong>L</strong>ocal <strong>F</strong>ile <strong>S</strong>ystem <strong>A</strong>ccess (<strong>LFSA</strong>) is:</p>
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<li>a tiny web server to allow client side JS access to local file system</li>
<li>a buildling block for <strong>C</strong>lient <strong>S</strong>ide <strong>W</strong>eb <strong>A</strong>pps (<strong>CSWA</strong>)</li>
<li>a single Python file</li>
<li>released under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/">CC0</a> license (public domain)</li>
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<p>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.</p>
<p><a href="http://opengamestudio.org/pskov">PSKOV</a> static site generator is the first CSWA to use LFSA.</p>
<h2 id="downloadlfsa">Download LFSA</h2>
<p>Download <a href="../lfsa_1.0.0.py">lfsa_1.0.0.py</a>.</p>
<p>If you use Linux or macOS, you're all set.</p>
<h2 id="installpythonwindowsonly">Install Python (Windows only)</h2>
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<p>Windows doesn't have Python installed by default, you have to <a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/">install Python yourself</a> to be able to run LFSA.</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: the video depicts Python 2.3.4 installation under Windows 2000, use the latest Python available for your version of Windows.</p>
<h2 id="runlfsa">Run LFSA</h2>
<h3 id="linuxandmacos">Linux and macOS</h3>
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<p>If you use Linux or macOS, run LFSA in terminal:</p>
<pre><code>/path/to/lfsa_1.0.0.py /path/to/dir
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<h3 id="windows">Windows</h3>
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<p>If you use Windows, run LFSA in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmd.exe">CMD</a>:</p>
<pre><code>C:/path/to/Python/installation/python.exe C:/path/to/lfsa_1.0.0.py C:/path/to/dir
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<h2 id="durability">Durability</h2>
<p>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.</p>
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The site has been generated by <a href="http://opengamestudio.org/pskov">PSKOV</a>
from <a href="http://github.com/ogstudio/site-lfsa">this source code</a>.
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