Angular: Using angular2 direct file upload to Firebase (without Express Multer middleware)

Created on 5 Jun 2016 · 3Comments · Source: angular/angular

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Current behavior
Hi, I am exploring ways to handle file upload (images in particular) using ng2. I was searching around the web and all the solutions points to using the multer middleware which is an express app for file upload.

Expected/desired behavior
The outcome I would like to achieve is to us ng2 front end to allow user to upload the file and ng2 to write the file to a Firebase3 storage as per Firebase SDK3.

Will ng2 be able to provide this feature to handle file upload and calling a http api to save the file to. Thanks.

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andlcool

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robwormald:
does angularfire2 support the storage api now?

daslicht on 12 Jan 2017

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angular/http will (eventually) handle file uploads, though its something you can do with fetch or XHR today. for firebase specifically, this will be provided through angularfire2 - FirebaseSDK3 support is forthcoming.