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Uppy 4.0 is here: TypeScript rewrite, Google Photos, React hooks, and much more.

Day 14

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Today marks the fourteenth day in our '30 Days to Liftoff' blog post challenge, working our way towards launching Uppy 1.0 on April 25. It's the beginning of a new week and there is much to be done. The Uppy team is already firing on all cylinders and we also have some developments to share from before the weekend.

Let's jump right in!



Done​

  • Renée finished work on canceling Transloadit Assemblies when you abort uploads.

  • Artur published the CHANGELOG for 0.30.4, which was a bit more work to figure out now that the whole Transloadit team is piling commits onto master 😱 We also completed a few smaller tasks, such as fixing an issue with our build scripts and updating the Companion docs.

Done for React Native​

This is a pretty big one! Ife and Artur delivered on the bare essentials for React Native. In our local tests, this means we can now successfully pick different files, have their uploads resume where they left off, select a remote file via Companion (for now, only picking from URL is supported) and see the progress reported by it.

There is a basic UI, most of which is encapsulated in the example that we'll publish on our website. We're refraining from building too much UI in our React Native module, as we assume that developers will want to have full control and style everything close to their app. We figured they would care most about seeing a good example and having access to core functionality, such as making mobile uploads more reliable and less draining on batteries and data plans.

While there are still things to be implemented, such as picking files from Instagram, we now know that we have all the Lego bricks required and that they are doing what they're supposed to. Now, it's just a matter of fleshing out those integrations, but we'll have to see whether we can get to that before 1.0. We're already happy about having a fixed idea about the API and a basic working example as our deliverables!

In Progress​

  • Alex is working on improving the Uppy design (in the code) in his design-facelift branch

  • Evgenia is working on improving accessibility together with Alex, who found many issues that we still need to fix in this area.

  • Now that the bare essentials of React Native work, Ife is making sure our local work finds a proper place in the tus-js-client (such as React-Native-compatible fingerprinting) while Artur hopes to find the time to tick off a few design goals to make for a better experience testdriving our example. Things like icons for files that are not images and a Close button for the select file screen.

  • The whole team will again do a call this afternoon to reassess our roadmap and see where all we stand. Some new tasks were added on Friday, so we'll also have to see about getting those into gear.

That's it for Day 14. Tomorrow, it will be Samuel's turn again to update you on our board and progress. Subscribe via Twitter or RSS and don't miss out on Day 15! 🐶