title: Read a file with Javascript
body: <p>So I've been looking around, and there are lots of methods to do this. Unfortunately, these are outdated and have been made impossible with browser updates. There is a lot of cross-origin stuff too, and the best thing I could find was <a href="http://ourcodeworld.com/articles/read/191/how-to-read-a-computer-file-using-javascript-in-the-browser" rel="nofollow">this</a>. Is there any way to access a file without using the file input type, and just using text instead? Eg: I input C:\Users\User\Desktop\myLibraries\jquery.min.js and it returns the code. I have no idea where to start on this, and all other methods are outdated.</p>