README.md

React FilePond

React FilePond is a handy wrapper component for FilePond, a JavaScript library that can upload anything you throw at it, optimizes images for faster uploads, and offers a great, accessible, silky smooth user experience.

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Core Features

• Accepts directories, files, blobs, local URLs, remote URLs and Data URIs.
• Drop files, select on filesystem, copy and paste files, or add files using the API.
• Async uploading with AJAX, or encode files as base64 data and send along form post.
• Accessible, tested with AT software like VoiceOver and JAWS, navigable by Keyboard.
• Image optimization, automatic image resizing, cropping, and fixes EXIF orientation.
• Responsive, automatically scales to available space, is functional on both mobile and desktop devices.

Learn more about FilePond

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Installation

npm install react-filepond filepond --save

Hooks:

import React, { useState } from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'

// Import React FilePond
import { FilePond, registerPlugin } from 'react-filepond'

// Import FilePond styles
import 'filepond/dist/filepond.min.css'

// Import the Image EXIF Orientation and Image Preview plugins
// Note: These need to be installed separately
// `npm i filepond-plugin-image-preview filepond-plugin-image-exif-orientation --save`
import FilePondPluginImageExifOrientation from 'filepond-plugin-image-exif-orientation'
import FilePondPluginImagePreview from 'filepond-plugin-image-preview'
import 'filepond-plugin-image-preview/dist/filepond-plugin-image-preview.css'

// Register the plugins
registerPlugin(FilePondPluginImageExifOrientation, FilePondPluginImagePreview)

// Our app
function App() {
  const [files, setFiles] = useState([])
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <FilePond
        files={files}
        onupdatefiles={setFiles}
        allowMultiple={true}
        maxFiles={3}
        server="/api"
        name="files" /* sets the file input name, it's filepond by default */
        labelIdle='Drag & Drop your files or <span class="filepond--label-action">Browse</span>'
      />
    </div>
  )
}

Component:

import React, { useState } from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'

// Import React FilePond
import { FilePond, registerPlugin } from "react-filepond";

// Import FilePond styles
import "filepond/dist/filepond.min.css";

// Import the Image EXIF Orientation and Image Preview plugins
// Note: These need to be installed separately
import FilePondPluginImageExifOrientation from "filepond-plugin-image-exif-orientation";
import FilePondPluginImagePreview from "filepond-plugin-image-preview";
import "filepond-plugin-image-preview/dist/filepond-plugin-image-preview.css";

// Register the plugins
registerPlugin(FilePondPluginImageExifOrientation, FilePondPluginImagePreview);

// Our app
class App extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.state = {
      // Set initial files, type 'local' means this is a file
      // that has already been uploaded to the server (see docs)
      files: [
        {
          source: "index.html",
          options: {
            type: "local"
          }
        }
      ]
    };
  }

  handleInit() {
    console.log("FilePond instance has initialised", this.pond);
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div className="App">
        <FilePond
          ref={ref => (this.pond = ref)}
          files={this.state.files}
          allowMultiple={true}
          allowReorder={true}
          maxFiles={3}
          server="/api"
          name="files" /* sets the file input name, it's filepond by default */
          oninit={() => this.handleInit()}
          onupdatefiles={fileItems => {
            // Set currently active file objects to this.state
            this.setState({
              files: fileItems.map(fileItem => fileItem.file)
            });
          }}
        />
      </div>
    );
  }
}

Read the docs for more information

Live Demo on Code Sandbox