Here’s what our App component’s onFilesDropped function should look like: Now that we’ve transformed the File object from NgxFileDropEntry to an observable let’s use Angular’s HttpClient to upload the files and return progress events. This works but feels a little dirty - if anyone knows a better solution here I would love to hear about it in the comments! File Uploads To workaround the issue the result of bindCallback is cast to any. Unfortunately there’s a typing issue in TypeScript’s es5 lib that I don’t fully understand. We’ll come back to this in a bit.įinally, we use bindCallback to create an observable from a function that passes the result of an async operation to a callback. In this case, however, we want to maintain the inner subscriptions so they continue streaming progress for each file that is being uploaded.
When you have an observable you would like to map to another observable, switchMap is the operator of choice in most cases because it automatically cancels inner subscriptions. Each NgxFileDropEntry will eventually map to an upload operation that emits multiple progress events over time. Next, the items are piped into mergeMap, this allows us to map each NgxFileDropEntry into a new observable without cancelling any previous inner subscriptions. There’s a lot going on in the bindCallback snippet above.įirst, the from operator is used to take an array of NgxFileDropEntry items and emit them one by one allowing us to operate on each item individually. Create a new file files/files-table-entry.ts:Ĭonvert File Callback to Observable with BindCallback Let’s add an interface that represents the data we will want to display. Create a new files component to display our list of files: ng g c filesĪdd a new instance of FilesComponent to your template: The easiest place to start is to get the list of files from the server and display them in a table.
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We’ll also install Bootstrap’s dependency npm i bootstrap -legacy-peer-depsĪdd the polyfill for Bootstrap by running the following terminal command: ng add import Bootstrap’s scss into your styles.scss file: "~bootstrap/scss/bootstrap" Files Table Let’s install Bootstrap, ng-bootstrap and ngx-file-drop. We can leverage a few third-party libraries to greatly simplify the creation of a real-world file upload component.
To begin, let’s create a new Angular application using the Angular CLI being sure to choose scss as your stylesheet format: ng new uploads-client & cd uploads-client
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