BrowserFS Deprecated

[james-pre]

Hi there, I'm a maintainer of BrowserFS. I've been going though the dependents of BrowserFS.

Please see the notice in the readme: https://github.com/jvilk/browserfs

Would you be interested in updating your project to use the updated fork, ZenFS?

[JonasHelming]

@sdirix FYI

[james-pre]

@sdirix @msujew @JonasHelming

Any updates on this?

[james-pre]

@JonasHelming @sdirix @msujew,

Any updates on this? It has been a few months. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I may even be willing to work on a PR for this due to the size of this project.

[msujew]

@james-pre We have a PR in review for this over at #14125.

[sdirix]

Hi @james-pre, thanks for the notice and your efforts on zenfs.

We evaluated the available options and decided to switch to an OPFS based approach. OPFS is browser native and offers all required functionality for a basic file system support within the Browser. While this is a bit more effort to implement compared to switching to a Node-fs-alternative like zenfs, it has the benefit of eliminating this dependency from the base Theia framework.

Any Theia-based application which wants to leverage zenfs can do so by implementing their own FileSystemProvider.

The switch to OPFS is implemented in #14263