You can create a FormData object by instantiating the FormData interface using the new operator as follows: It’s mostly useful when you need to send form data to RESTful API endpoints, for example, to upload single or multiple files using the XMLHttpRequest interface or any HTTP client library. It’s designed for holding form data and can be used with JavaScript to build an object which corresponds to an HTML form. What’s FormData?įormData is a data structure that can be used to store key-value pairs. Let’s get started with a quick introduction to FormData. Instead, we’ll be using a service for uploading and sharing files online.
We’ll not create a server application for file upload since this is out of the scope of this tutorial. Step 8 - Creating a File Upload UI with Material Icon, Card, Button, and ProgressBar Components.Step 7 - Creating an Angular File Upload Service.Step 2 - Initializing a New Angular 12 Project.
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How to use various RxJS operators like map() and catchError().How to use Angular Material’ MatProgressBar component to indicate the percentage of file upload in real-time.How to use FormData to create forms in TypeScript,.How to listen for file upload progress events using HttpClient,.How to use HttpClient to send POST requests with multipart/form-data,.How to set up HttpClient in your Angular 12 project,.How to upload single and multiple image files in TypeScript and Angular 12.We’ll see how to use Angular Material ProgressBar for indicating activity when uploading images and how to use HttpClient along with with the RxJS map() method to listen for file upload progress events.īy following this tutorial, you’ll learn the following skills: In this tutorial, we’ll see by example how to upload multiple image files using FormData, HttpClient (for posting multipart/form-data), Angular 12 and TypeScript.