VFS is an experimental wrapper around SSHFS written in Node.js. It makes it possible to mount remote filesystems accessible through SFTP over WebSockets (instead of common SFTP over SSH).
In future, it might support other kinds of virtual filesystems as well.
Note: At the client side, Linux with sshfs and Node.js is required.
wss://nuane.com/sftp).sshfs at the client (in Debian/Ubuntu, run apt-get install sshfs as root).vfs at the client by running npm install vfs (add -g as root to install globally).vfs url mountpoint (for example vfs wss://nuane.com/sftp ~/sftp). Optionally, add --path=path_name to specify a remote path if you only wish to mount a part of the remote filesystem.Basic authentication is supported at the moment, which is insufficient).FAQs
Experimental SFTP over WebSockets filesystem client running on top of SSHFS
The npm package vfs receives a total of 86 weekly downloads. As such, vfs popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that vfs demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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