Implementing Syncfusion React Uploader
The Syncfusion React UploaderComponent provides a rich file upload control with async upload, drag-and-drop, chunk upload with pause/resume/cancel, validation, templates, form integration, and accessibility support.
Navigation Guide
Getting Started
📄 Read: references/getting-started.md
- Installation and package setup for React
- License registration
- Basic
UploaderComponentusage in JSX/TSX - CSS theme imports
- Drop area configuration
- Success and failure event handling
Asynchronous Upload
📄 Read: references/async-upload.md
asyncSettingswithsaveUrlandremoveUrl- Multiple vs. single file upload (
multiple) - Auto upload vs. manual upload (
autoUpload) - Sequential upload (
sequentialUpload) - Preloaded files (
filesproperty) - Adding custom HTTP headers via
uploading/removingevents - Server-side save/remove action examples
Chunk Upload
📄 Read: references/chunk-upload.md
- Enabling chunk upload with
asyncSettings.chunkSize - Retry configuration (
retryCount,retryAfterDelay) - Pause and resume chunked uploads (
pause,resumemethods) - Cancel uploads (
cancelmethod) chunkSuccessandchunkFailureevents- Server-side chunk handling (C#)
Validation
📄 Read: references/validation.md
- Allowed file extensions (
allowedExtensions) - File size limits (
minFileSize,maxFileSize) - Maximum file count using
selectedevent - Duplicate file prevention
- Drag-and-drop image validation
File Sources
📄 Read: references/file-source.md
- Clipboard paste upload
- Directory/folder upload (
directoryUpload) - Drag-and-drop with custom drop area (
dropArea) - Customizing drop area appearance
Templates and Customization
📄 Read: references/template-customization.md
- File list
templateproperty - Custom upload UI with
showFileList: false - Customizing action buttons (
buttonsproperty) - Progress bar customization
- Hiding the default drop area
- Style and appearance overrides
Advanced How-To Scenarios
📄 Read: references/advanced-how-to.md
- Programmatic file upload (
uploadmethod,getFilesData) - Invisible/background upload
- Image preview before uploading
- Resize images before upload
- Sort selected files
- Check file size / MIME type before upload
- Confirm dialog before file removal
- Open/edit uploaded files
- Trigger file browser from external button
- Convert uploaded image to binary
- JWT authentication for secure upload
- Form support (HTML form, template-driven, reactive)
- Localization (custom locale strings)
- Accessibility and keyboard navigation
API Reference
📄 Read: references/api.md
- All properties (
allowedExtensions,asyncSettings,autoUpload,buttons,cssClass,directoryUpload,dropArea,dropEffect,enabled,files,htmlAttributes,locale,maxFileSize,minFileSize,multiple,sequentialUpload,showFileList,template, and more) - All methods (
upload,remove,cancel,pause,resume,retry,clearAll,getFilesData,bytesToSize,createFileList,sortFileList) - All events (
uploading,success,failure,selected,removing,change,progress,chunkSuccess,chunkFailure,chunkUploading,actionComplete,beforeRemove,beforeUpload,canceling,clearing,fileListRendering,pausing,resuming,created)
Quick Start Example
import { UploaderComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs';
import '@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material.css';
import '@syncfusion/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css';
import '@syncfusion/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css';
import '@syncfusion/ej2-popups/styles/material.css';
import '@syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs/styles/material.css';
function App() {
const asyncSettings = {
saveUrl: 'https://services.syncfusion.com/react/production/api/FileUploader/Save',
removeUrl: 'https://services.syncfusion.com/react/production/api/FileUploader/Remove'
};
const onSuccess = (args: any) => {
console.log('Upload operation:', args.operation, 'File:', args.file.name);
};
const onFailure = (args: any) => {
console.error('Upload failed:', args.file.name);
};
return (
<UploaderComponent
asyncSettings={asyncSettings}
autoUpload={false}
success={onSuccess}
failure={onFailure}
/>
);
}Common Patterns
Auto Upload with Validation
<UploaderComponent
asyncSettings={{ saveUrl: '/api/upload/save', removeUrl: '/api/upload/remove' }}
allowedExtensions=".pdf,.doc,.docx"
maxFileSize={5000000}
multiple={true}
/>Manual Upload with Custom Buttons
<UploaderComponent
asyncSettings={{ saveUrl: '/api/upload/save', removeUrl: '/api/upload/remove' }}
autoUpload={false}
buttons={{ browse: 'Choose File', clear: 'Clear All', upload: 'Upload All' }}
/>Chunk Upload for Large Files
<UploaderComponent
asyncSettings={{
saveUrl: '/api/upload/save',
removeUrl: '/api/upload/remove',
chunkSize: 500000 // 500 KB chunks
}}
/>Key Decision Guide
| Need | Property/Event |
|---|---|
| Server URLs | asyncSettings.saveUrl + asyncSettings.removeUrl |
| Auto vs manual upload | autoUpload (default: true) |
| Large file upload | asyncSettings.chunkSize |
| Restrict file types | allowedExtensions |
| Limit file size | maxFileSize / minFileSize |
| Preload files from server | files prop |
| Upload one at a time | sequentialUpload: true |
| Entire folder upload | directoryUpload: true |
| Custom drop target | dropArea |
| Custom file list UI | template or showFileList: false |
| Add auth headers | uploading event → args.currentRequest.setRequestHeader() |
| Send extra form data | uploading event → args.customFormData |