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TLDR; In this post I go over how to read files one line at time using the HTML5 File API. You can view the final code on github. Last week, I came across a question on stackoverflow: how can one read files using the HTML5 File API, one line at a time, without loading the entire file into memory? Why, one might ask, would this be useful? Before any file data can be processed it needs to be loaded i