/filepond

🌊 A flexible and fun JavaScript file upload library

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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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21 KB gzipped. FilePond adapters are available for React, Vue, Angular and jQuery

FilePond is maintained by Rik Schennink

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

Browser Compatibility

FilePond is compatible with a wide range of desktop and mobile browsers, the oldest explicitly supported browser is IE11, for best cross browser support add FilePond Polyfill and Babel polyfill to your project.

FilePond uses BrowserStack for compatibility testing.

BrowserStack

Time to learn ES6?

FilePond is written in ES6. The docs also feature a lot of ES6 code examples.

If you want to learn how to write modern ES6 JavaScript as well, ES6 for Everyone by Wes Bos is highly recommended.

Plugins

Adapters

Backend

Quick Start

Install using npm:

npm install filepond

Then import in your project:

import * as FilePond from 'filepond';

// Create a multi file upload component
const pond = FilePond.create({
    multiple: true,
    name: 'filepond'
});

// Add it to the DOM
document.body.appendChild(pond.element);

Or get it from a CDN:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>FilePond from CDN</title>

  <!-- Filepond stylesheet -->
  <link href="https://unpkg.com/filepond/dist/filepond.css" rel="stylesheet">

</head>
<body>

  <!-- We'll transform this input into a pond -->
  <input type="file" class="filepond">

  <!-- Load FilePond library -->
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/filepond/dist/filepond.js"></script>

  <!-- Turn all file input elements into ponds -->
  <script>
  FilePond.parse(document.body);
  </script>

</body>
</html>

Getting started with FilePond

Publications

License

Please don't remove or change the disclaimers in the source files

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2019 PQINA | Rik Schennink

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.