ESP32 + LittleFS. How to access a file included by manifest.

[AlexLucardGoodman]

Hello!
I'm experimenting with LittleFS filesystem on Esp32. I've been able to read directory's contents, create and delete files, but I was wondering how to access a file included in the Moddable Project in my manifest.json???

During some WifiAP tests I created a server and was able to send a file included as follows in manifest:
... "data": { "*": [ "./assets/textfile" ] } ...
but this file doesn't appear in the filesystem. Is there a way to access it through LittleFS?
Thank you.

[phoddie]

The files referenced by the data section of the manifest are transferred to the device as Resources. They do not build a file system. Resources are lighter-weight than files and work even on all devices, even those without a file system. You access the data in a resource as a read-only Uint8Array:

import Resource from "Resource";

let bytes = new Uint8Array(new Resource("mydata"));

The files/resource example goes a bit deeper.

If you want to make the resource data available through a file system, you can write some code to copy the data from the resource to a file.