Accessing Files & Saving Data

You can save data to the browser storage or to the local file system.

• Using browser APIs like LocalStorage, SessionStorage & IndexedDB.

• Using fig.appwrite and fig.appread

• Using fig.fwrite and fig.fread

Reading and Writing App Files

Every app has a directory where they can read and write freely. This can be used for storing user data or preferences.

Read data from file relative to ~/.fig/apps/app-name/ where app-name is defined by the fig:app meta tag.

fig.appread('prefs.json', (data, error) => {

})

Write data to file relative to ~/.fig/apps/app-name/

let data = JSON.stringify({theme: "dark"})
fig.appwrite(path, data, (error) => {

})

Reading and Writing User Files

Write data to file at path. The path is relative to the user's working directory when they launch your app.

To write a file to the path.

fig.fwrite(path, data, (error) => {
  
})

Read data from file at path

fig.fread(path, (data, error) => {
  
})

Normalize File paths

fig.normalizeFilepath

fig.normalizeFilePath(`${fig.env.PWD}/..`, (normalized) => { 
    console.log(normalized) 
})