Move off of the nonstandard Chrome-specific Filesystem API (web-fs)

[deathcap]

webnpm uses the web-fs module, which works well, but relies on the Web FileSystem API that is "unlikely to be implemented by other browsers and is no longer being standardized with the W3C":

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/

In April 2014, it was announced on public-webapps that the Filesystem API spec is not being considered by other browsers. For now, the API is Chrome-specific and it's unlikely to be implemented by other browsers and is no longer being standardized with the W3C.

what is the alternative? (local storage? network-based virtual filesystem?)

perhaps: https://github.com/mafintosh/browserify-fs