Remote links from browsers to open local files in users' local editor.
For developer tools generated reports in HTML, like cpupro, speedscope, @eslint/config-inspector, coverages reports etc., it's common for them to provide information about your local code files. While the web gives us a lot of flexibility and interactiveness to build nice and useful UIs to present those data, on the other hand, by its definition, web is sandboxed. When you have a server, we could use launch-editor and send a signal from the client to ask the server to open the editor for you. But in cases where you serve static HTML files or hosted inspectors, you lose such capability.
localfile.link try to provide a universal way to solve this problem where developers of those devtools only need to redirect users to a URL like https://localfile.link?file=<filepath> without needing a dedicated dev server.
Under the hook, localfile.link works with client app that register a custom deep link protocol to localfile:// the browsers. The webpage will redirects users to that protocol, which launches the client to open the filepath in your editor.
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