| ▲ | mg 9 hours ago |
| > but trying to save data required hosting it somewhere With the File System Access API, webpages nowadays can read and write local files just like desktop applications: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/web-apis/file... Try this text editor for example: https://googlechromelabs.github.io/text-editor/ It works nicely on Desktop and Mobile. |
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| ▲ | emaro 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| *In Chrome. |
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| ▲ | simongray 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | That file editor seems to work in Firefox. I just tested the save/open functionality. | | |
| ▲ | tbrockman 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's not using the File System Access API, on Firefox it uses <input type="file"> for file-picking, and the save just downloads it. It's not synchronizing anything with your filesystem. | | | |
| ▲ | maelito 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It just downloaded the file on my firefox. |
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| ▲ | pspeter3 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| My dream is that you could write to Google Drive or iCloud Drive transparently too if the browser allows you to |
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| ▲ | jg0r 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | I believe you are able to connect to a Google Drive account with a purely client side site via google oauth and then using the Google Drive rest api. There was an article in particular that I liked that walked through it. Let me see if I can find it | | |
| ▲ | Lord_Zero 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes but Google OAuth is a nightmare if you want to "publish" your client so that anyone can use it. If only you use it, you can add yourself as a test user. Just know your access token expires super fast and you will have to frequently re-auth. Its crazy annoying. |
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| ▲ | darkvertex 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Even better how about a fully functional VSCode:
https://vscode.dev The File System Access API makes it possible. |
