# Local Solid Pod

**URL:** <https://forum.solidproject.org/t/local-solid-pod/2351>\
**Category:** App Testing\
**Created:** [November 2, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/local-solid-pod/2351 "2019-11-02T20:33:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![A\_A](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/a_a/32/786_2.png) [@A\_A](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/A_A)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 8:02am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/local-solid-pod/2351/3 "2019-11-03T08:02:14Z")

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I think there are many different use cases. I’ve already discussed them in the [other forum post](http://forum.solidproject.org/t/create-local-in-browser-pod/1822) (Back then I wanted to do it in the browser with web extensions, but I sadly didn’t find a way to do that).

> In the same way the file systems gives multiple installed apps access to local data, a local pod could give online apps a controlled access to local pod data.

### Main benefits (I see)

- One can use linked data on the own file system and access it with (online/offline) apps
- Common (solid like) interface for apps to access local file storage. The file storage can be seen just as any other solid pod and hence uploading/downloading files from/to an app would be easy.
- Less bandwidth usage, because the files can be stored and used locally (-\> less energey, faster, offline usage)
- No need to trust and afford a pod provider for local projects (-\> better data security and privacy)
- Could be used to serve any cloud storage service (e.g. Dropbox) as a local solid pod

Possible benefits for developing:

- Running tests locally (both automated tests (e.g. for solid-file-client) and manual tests (e.g. for solid-filemanager) (-\> faster and
- Can be tested against multiple fetch libraries which possibly all follow the spec, but maybe implement them slightly different. For instance if there was a NSS like fetch library and a Pod-Server like fetch library, one could run tests against both.

(For automated testing, it would probably be better to make use of solid-rest which doesn’t need to run over localhost)

I guess that there are more use cases, but these are the ones I have in mind for now.

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