Wow, the PWA is really impressive. Honestly it's starting to get hard to tell the difference between this and Electron-based editors like VS Code. I'm really excited for integration with the File System Access API; that's the final puzzle piece I'd need to use something like this for serious work.
So it's 8 dollars for the astronaut plan. That's what I pay for robux to my kids, per week. It's jaw dropping to me how such advanced tech is made available at a single digit price. Thanks for sharing.
> Honestly it's starting to get hard to tell the difference between this and Electron-based editors like VS Code
Since Electron is just chromium, I'm not sure why you would expect a difference in the first place? The differences that previously existed between Electron & Web hasn't changed - Electron's only real purpose was to basically turn off the browser permission model & let the "web app" do whatever it wants. That's still true with WebContainers, it still has its hands & features tied to whatever Chrome & browsers in general are comfortable letting websites ask permission to do.
Me too and I was surprised to find that Chrome lists this as "ready" or "released" (I don't recall the exact term). I tried the example web based editor and found that the file system access API worked in Firefox too.
I'm working on a note taking project right now that I think would be great as a web app, but I'd like to store the result in a flat text file and the file system access API looks like it will let me do exactly that.
> ..found that the file system access API worked in Firefox too
For now, File System Access API seems to be available only in desktop Chromium browsers: Edge, Chrome, Opera. I believe Firefox has not implemented it yet.
> The ability to read and write from the filesystem is potentially very dangerous. We will need to carefully consider any solution in light of the security and privacy implications. We recognize that the spec authors take this issue seriously, but we are concerned that any solution will increase the risk of security incidents more than we are willing to tolerate.
> Right now, there isn't enough detail in the specification to make an assessment of these risks, so we will defer our decision until we have more information.
