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And some notes about access to the local filesystem:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46467858/manipulating-the-local-file-system-with-browser-based-javascript-and-node
“Naturally, browser-hosted JavaScript cannot access the file system of the user’s machine (at present; someday, some kind of sandboxed access may happen — the last attempt failed, but that doesn’t mean the next one has to).”
“Probably the easiest way for the pieces to interact would be HTTP, which you can trivially support using ExpressJS.”

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Native File System
Draft Community Group Report, 5 May 2020
https://wicg.github.io/native-file-system/

https://web.dev/native-file-system/
“The Native File System API (formerly known as the Writeable Files API) enables developers to build powerful web apps that interact with files on the user’s local device,”