Introducing filer.js

1 · Eric Bidelman · Dec. 27, 2011, midnight
Some 1300+ lines of code, 106 tests, and a year after I first started it, I’m happy to officially unleash filer.js; a wrapper library for the HTML5 Filesystem API. Unlike other libraries [1, 2], filer.js takes a different approach and incorporates some lessons I learned while implementing the Google Docs Python client library. Namely, the library reuses familiar UNIX commands (cp, mv, rm) for its API. My goal was to a.) make the HTML5 API more approachable for developers that have done file I/O ...