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Discussion on: File uploads in Angular 10+ (or JavaScript in general)

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Mayvid14

Hello. Browsers are not meant to read files unless they are uploaded by the user. It would be a security issue if they could do so on their own.

If you are building your app for desktops using something like electron, then you can use node.js to do the same.