How can I generate an IPFS hash in advance for a file with pure node and no daemon running?

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Generate File Hash Locally on Browser

Hi everyone! I’m glad to be part of this community! Hopefully someone can help me with my following issue! What I’m trying to do is to generate the IPFS hash of a file while the user is using a PWA offline (just a web app). If I’m connected, I can just ipfs.add to add a file and get the file hash, no sweat. Now, if I’m offline I need to hash it locally and want the same output as if I added to an IPFS node. This is the code that I got so far: import { importer } from "ipfs-unixfs-importer"; …