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BrowserFS is an in-browser filesystem that emulates the Node JS filesystem API and supports storing and retrieving files from various backends.

20 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 3 stories, 17 comments · first 2013-12-13 · latest 2022-11-29

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  1. …File System APIs for WASM and some external projects[0], I don't think they're yet integrated. [0] https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS
    comment by santiagobasulto · 2022-11-29 · in JupyterLite: a JupyterLab distribution that runs in the browser
  2. …and/or use range requests. [0] https://emscripten.org/docs/api_reference/Filesystem-API.htm... [1] https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS [2] https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS/blob/a96aa2d417995dac7d37...
    comment by mercora · 2021-08-21 · in FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly
  3. …the Node JS file system API and supports storing and retrieving files from various backends. https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS It supports storage backends such as: in memory, LocalStorage, IndexDB, HTTP, or the FileSystem API.
    comment by lioeters · 2020-09-09 · in The Native File System API allows web apps to save directly to files
  4. BrowserFS has a few different APIs integrated. Not the lightest library though. https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS/blob/master/README.md
    comment by sbr464 · 2019-11-12 · in Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
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    BrowserFS: An in-browser filesystem supports various back ends
    story by ngaut · 2019-11-06 · 20 comments
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    BrowserFS: An in Browser File System
    story by drenvuk · 2019-11-06 · 0 comments
  7. …IndexedDB, localStorage, and Dropbox, among others. (Disclaimer: I am the author of BrowserFS.) [1] https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS
    comment by jvilk · 2018-05-17 · in A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and browsers
  8. There is BrowserFS https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS
    comment by davidjnelson · 2018-04-16 · in NirSoft Freeware (2008)
  9. …existing packages that otherwise would benefit greatly from BrowserFS. Issue 124, Support streams: https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS/issues/124 As an alternative: it lacks the flexible, pluggible/mountable backend of BrowserFS, but…
    comment by rektide · 2016-12-29 · in BrowserFS: an in-browser filesystem with many back ends
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    BrowserFS: an in-browser filesystem with many back ends
    story by setra · 2016-12-29 · 20 comments
  11. …http://plasma-umass.github.io/doppio-demo/ ). Doppio contains BrowserFS (available separately as https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS ), an in-browser file system that abstracts over local storage and lets you mount remote filesystems like…
    comment by emeryberger · 2016-12-12 · in Run Unix processes inside your browser
  12. …that Rhino is running in to load the JDK. If that sounds like fun, I take pull requests [0]. :) [0] https://github.com/jvilk/browserfs
    comment by jvilk · 2016-05-08 · in Java Polyfill for the Browser
  13. …it into IndexedDB, since Doppio's file system, BrowserFS, supports arbitrary backends [1]. [1] https://github.com/jvilk/browserfs
    comment by jvilk · 2016-05-08 · in Java Polyfill for the Browser
  14. …[3] https://github.com/plasma-umass/Ninia/wiki/Mapping-Python-Ob... [4] https://github.com/jvilk/browserfs [5] http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4924 [6] https://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/interpreter.html
    comment by jvilk · 2016-04-16 · in Jaspy – A Python VM written in JavaScript
  15. I think your work is amazing and you should link to it: https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS
    comment by egeozcan · 2016-01-31 · in The Secret Feature of EM-DOSBOX on Internet Archive
  16. …virtual filesystem will work. The Internet Archive's loader uses .zip file bundles via BrowserFS: https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS
    comment by vitovito · 2015-01-23 · in The Emularity
  17. …TypeScript codebase, but I'm a bit biased. Not sure what you view as 'large', though. [0] https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS
    comment by jvilk · 2014-07-21 · in TypeScript: New Compiler and Moving to GitHub
  18. …to TypeScript; interesting [5]. [1] https://github.com/int3/doppio Doppio: A JVM in TypeScript [2] https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS BrowserFS: A full-featured file-system in your browser that emulates the Node fs API [3] I'm referring to…
    comment by jvilk · 2014-02-28 · in TypeScript included with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2
  19. …architecture and other problems recently. But I'd appreciate any comments people have on it. :) [0] https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS
    comment by jvilk · 2014-02-12 · in LocalForage: Offline Storage, Improved
  20. If it's possible to integrate this with BrowserFS, you'd be all set: https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS/#browserfs
    comment by perimo · 2013-12-13 · in Vim.js - JavaScript port of Vim