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Most JavaScript programmers who have learned about Node.js are well aware of the
fs module , which
in the Node API serves to access the file system.
Matthew Phillips (in the photo on the right) made a successful attempt to create in the browser (client) javascript a partial analogue of this node module. The source code, published by him
on Github to the beginning of this year (2013), supports working with files and directories of the virtual file system, in the role of which the Chrome
FileSystem API , and in Firefox and in IE -
IndexedDB .