upload-controller

A simple upload controller to upload single files. Allow for uploads in React, Angular components to continue even if the component is unmounted.

install

npm install upload-controller

Usage

The files passed to the uploadController is an instance of FileList. You can choose to pass onProgress, onEnd if you want to track the file upload. query is optional and will be posted to the server along with the file. The query must be an array of key, value (see example below).

You can also pass headers as an array for additional request headers (see example below).

• onProgress- object {percentComplete} will be passed to the callback along with your additional parameters.
• onEnd - same as onProgress except that percentComplete will not be in the callback. If the server responded with json you will have a response object in onEnd. If no response from server was made then response object will be null.

import uploadController from 'upload-controller';
 
uploadController(this.files, {
  url: '/upload',
  onProgress: onProgress,
  onEnd() {
     onEnd({path: path}) // you can pass additional data to your callback
  },
  onError: onError,
  query: [
    {
      key: 'param1',
      value: 'value1'
    }
  ],
  headers: [
    {
      key: 'someheader',
      value: '....'
    }
  ]
});
 
function onEnd () {
  console.log('The file is uploaded')
}
 
function onProgress ({percentComplete}) {
  console.log(percentComplete);
}
 
function onError () {
  
}
 

simple React version

import React, {Component} from 'react'
import uploadController from 'uploadController'
 
class Upload extends Component {
 
  constructor (props) {
    super(props);
    this.files = [];
    this.onFilesChange = this.onFilesChange.bind(this);
    this.upload = this.upload.bind(this);
  }
 
  onFilesChange (event) {
  	let files = event.target.files;
    this.files = files;
  }
 
  upload () {
    uploadController(this.files, {
   	  url: '/upload',
      onProgress: () => {}, // make callback
      onEnd: () => {} // make callback
    });    
  }
 
  render () {
    return (
      <div>
          <h4>Please choose a file.</h4>
          <div>
            <input type={'file'} onChange={this.onFilesChange}/><br/><br/>
            <button disabled={this.files.length === 0} onClick={this.upload}>Upload</button>
          </div>
      </div>
    );
  }
}
 
export default Upload;

server

Fire up your express server. The example below is for formidable but you could use any multipart/upload server parser.

var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var formidable = require('formidable');
 
app.post( '/upload', function(req, res ) {
     var form = new formidable.IncomingForm({
     	uploadDir: '/some/dir/',
        keepExtensions: true
     });
     form.on('progress', function(bytesReceived, bytesExpected) {
        var percent_complete = (bytesReceived / bytesExpected) * 100;
    });
 
    form.on('end', function(fields, files) {
        res.send({});
    });
 
    form.parse(req);
});

Next

Anyone have need for multi upload? Add an issue. We need to discuss how callbacks should be handled when having multiple files. Please add an issue if you have questions or want some features.