What "File Upload Form API/SDK" do you use?
I do not know the exact name for the service I am looking for:
I have built a static website (no backend) for a customer.
There is a form on the website and users should be able to upload files. As there is no backend, I need some kind of file upload service.
I have found uploadcare.com or filestack.com but there free tier is very small and I rather would have a usage-based payment. Also their documentation is very complex and kinda all over the place.
Do you know any alternatives?
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Take a look at https://cloudinary.com/pricing and their Upload widget and API
We have used Cloudinary very efficiently at FeedbackPanda. It was super easy to integrate, and it remained cheap enough with our customers' usage patterns.
What I would heavily recommend is to do a lot of math regarding your pricing at scale. Cloudinary has a 4-factor pricing model, and some traffic/usage patterns could cause costs to explode quickly (lots of small uploads all the time, or massive files) while others don't (regular form uploads). Make sure you know how this will be used.
Thanks! I will try it out :)
Uclusion uses React DropZone. It's pretty sweet and lets me hook in my own handlers really easily.
Other than that I use S3 and Lambda here's a blog on dev.to how
I use s3 to store uploaded files
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I was pretty tired when I anwered. To be precise I have an API Gateway + a nodejs lambda, that genenrates a POST signed uplad links, which allows me, to upload items to a private bucket. and I use https://github.com/rowanwins/vue-dropzone to upload the items
honsetly it's pretty complicated and it doesn't work as I want right now. uploads for 100MB and more are buggy atm.
I wouldn't really recommend it if you don't already have decent AWS knowledge
Thanks! I do have a good AWS knowledge, but my customer wanted to have something quick and usable, so I wanted to find a full upload/store solution. But as soon as I find some time I will build my own little file upload tool :)
Filestack.com is great
I needed a file uploader, and found https://github.com/elninotech/uppload
Not sure if they have an api.
Docs are ok. I had to tweak a config for the Svelte frontend - see issue #288 on github.
It works for what I need right now. I'm open to other options though.
Thanks for your suggestions, but this is a front-end only tool ("can be used with any file uploading backend"). I am looking for a service which provides both: a frontend-tool and a backend for the uploaded files.
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Yeah, the free tier of filestack and uploadcare is something that has been bugging me. Especially the price jump from the free tier to the normal tier is too high. I will try out cloudinary, thanks!