I'm struggling to know how to read a file (client-side) in JS without using a file input, as I only need to read a local file in my project.

What I want to achieve is to get the content from a .less file in order to put it into a parser of some kind (I need to access its content in a javascript file).

I cannot use "fs" as I'm not using node, but I don't seem to be able to use the FileReader API either as it needs a Blob object which would be obtained by the file input.

Does someone have an idea ?

CodePudding user response：

client side doesn't have access to manage file system, you can read file with input but cannot write or delete from client side. it is only possible with a backend application written in node js or java, from their you can expose those services and call it from client side through http requests.