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Uppy is featured on Product Hunt! To our fellow hunters: welcome! Quick intro: Uppy is the next open source file uploader for web browsers. We're very close to launching 1.0 and would love to get your feedback in, leave your thoughts on Product Hunt or start a discussion below.

Hi all! It’s New Year and Christmas time, and this year Santa is brining you Uppy 0.22 🎁 This release packs a lot of neat stuff, but it also breaks things in quite a few places, so please read on.

And, if you are celebrating, happy holidays from the Uppy Team! 🎄

Hi all! We’ve been busy with Halloween, but also another release, so here is Uppy 0.21! This one improves accessibility, features new end-to-end tests and improved security in Uppy Server.

We are proud to present Uppy 0.20. This one focuses on React and Redux support, adding storage expirations to GoldenRetriever and upload retries. Enjoy!

Uppy React components​

Uppy now ships with React components! We’ve been exploring different approaches to React components for several months, so we’re excited to finally have them in ✨ There are components for each of Uppy’s UI elements, like the Dashboard and the StatusBar.

const uppy = Uppy();
uppy.use(Tus10, { endpoint: '/upload' });

const Dashboard = require('uppy/lib/react/Dashboard');

const Uploader = () => (
	<Dashboard uppy={uppy} note="Hey! It's a React component!" />
);

ReactDOM.render(<Uploader />, document.querySelector('#uploader'));

Hello! The 0.19 release is about internal fixes, optimizations and refactoring, as well as some work on PRs that we’ll hopefully tell you about soon!

Jest tests​

Thanks to our contributer, @richardwillars, and following the example set by Uppy Server, we’ve switched to Jest for Uppy’s unit tests, and added a bunch of new tests as well. And even more are being added as we speak!

We're also happy to report that more tests have been added for Uppy Server.

Dashboard APIs​

We’ve exposed show/hide/isOpen APIs for the Dashboard UI plugin. Now you can open and close the modal dialog programmatically:

const modal = uppy.getPlugin('Dashboard');
modal.show();

// ...

button.addEventListener('click', () => {
	if (modal.isOpen()) {
		modal.hide();
	} else {
		modal.show();
	}
});

Check out the docs.

Hi! Another month — a new Uppy release 🎉

Note: current latest release is actually 0.19, but this post got delayed, so we are publishing it first. 0.19 post is coming next.

New documentation​

Documentation for Uppy has been re-written, and now features chapters on Uppy’s settings and API, using various plugins, and running Uppy Server. Check it out: https://uppy.io/docs/. More chapters to come!

The GoldenRetriever​

The GoldenRetriever has been released as a public beta. For details, please refer to the previous post, The GoldenRetriever: Making uploads survive browser crashes, but the gist is: when enabled, this plugin will save uppy-state to localStorage on every change, and then if your browser crashes, or you accidentaly navigate away from a tab,later when you return, your uploads will resume like nothing happened. Spoiler: it uses Service Workers and IndexedDB.

TL;DR: We're on a mission to improve file uploading on the web. We released tus: the open protocol for resumable file uploads, as well as Uppy: the next open source file uploader for web browsers. Uppy uses tus, which makes it resilient to poor network conditions and crashing servers. Today we’re launching an Uppy feature that also makes it resilient to browser crashes, which we believe is an industry first. We’re sharing a quick demo video, a bit of background, how it works exactly we achieved this, and how you can try it yourself.

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Don’t you just hate it when you’re about to share the perfect photos from your trip to Iceland, and halfway through, your cat jumps on the keyboard and trashes your browser? Or the battery in your laptop dies? Or you accidentally close the tab or navigate away? We hate that too!

If action games have had checkpoints since 1687 — why can’t file uploaders? Well, as it turns out, they can! We found a way to get those Iceland pics into the hands of your loved ones with near-zero levels of frustration, even after a dreaded Blue Screen of Death! (if that is still a thing ;)

Hi! We are back with yet another Uppy release that contains some often requested features such as file restrictions and better file type detection, alongside a brand new Instagram plugin, UI improvements and more!

Hello there! Missed us much? :) We're chomping at the bits, at least, to tell you about our latest release. This one has been in the works longer than usual, but then again, it's also way cooler than usual, so let's get right to it.

Spring is in the air and Uppy is feeling particularly full of life. In this post about Uppy 0.15, we have some exciting stories about babel-plugin-yo-yoify, progress event throttling, and new friends.

Hi! Hope y’all have had great holidays! 🎄 Which reminds us, we still have a gift for you — and we even wrapped it in a package (npm). Look inside and you’ll find that Uppy 0.14!

“But wait”, you might ask, “where is the 0.13 release that we have been waiting for?”

Well, let’s just say we are superstitious like that. You won’t see us coding under any ladders either! And we were also in the middle of the holiday season, so we decided to call 0.13 “The Release That Wasn’t” and skip it.

Let’s take a look at what Uppy 0.14 has in store for you.