HTTP Filesystem

Expose filesystem via HTTP and access it from the other side!

This module works best with memory-fs.

Install

Install package:

yarn add htfs

OR

npm install htfs

Server

Serving real fs is not a good idea. In this example we serve a virtual filesystem.

const HTTPFSMiddleware = require('htfs/lib/middleware')
const express = require('express')
const MFS = require('memory-fs')

// Create a new express app listening on port 8080
const app = express()
app.listen(8080)

// Create a new Virtual FileSystem with a test file
const mfs = new MFS()
mfs.mkdirpSync('/test')
mfs.writeFileSync('/test/file.txt', 'Works!')

// Create and register fs middleware
app.use('/mfs', HTTPFSMiddleware(mfs))

You can now browse filesystem with broweser: http://localhost:8080/mfs/

Client

Supported methods:

• exists(path): Promise<Boolean>
• readFile(path): Promise<String>

const HTTPFSAClient = require('htfs/lib/client')

const fs = new HTTPFSAClient({
  endpoint: 'http://localhost:8080/mfs'
})

fs.readFile('/test/file.txt').then((contents) => {
  console.log('File contents:', contents)
})

Options

endpoint

Required. HTTP URL of server.

License

MIT. Made with 💖