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Day 4: s3, sorting, remembering credentials
This is a dev diary of implementing https://filerion.com/, a file manager for Dropbox, s3 and more.
Today:
  • added basic s3 support. Unfortunately due to CORS you can’t do S3 requests from the browser (unless you configure the bucket to allow CORS, which no-one does) so had to route the requests via the backend
  • implemented basic sorting up / down by name and size
  • show status line with number of directories, files, total size of files etc.
  • display currently executed actions (like "downloading Dropbox listing")
  • added remembering configured filesystem in localStorage. Entering s3 credentials every time you re-launch the website would be very annoying so this is important
  • modern browsers have access to per-website storage that acts like a file system so I’ve added a way to manage that area as well. It was easy to add because it uses the same API as opening local folders
Written on Jun 12 2022.
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