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Paul Prins
@paulprins · Founder - Fresh Vine
looks intereting but why hunt it before its ready for use? How does it compare to other tools already on the market?
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Kevin van Zonneveld
@kvz · Co-founder, Transloadit
@paulprins Thanks for asking! I did set the Status to "Pre-launch", but it seems that has no big UI impact here besides the half-moon icon - I'm sorry for any confusion. The reason we're already sharing our work is because early adopters are in fact already enjoying Uppy for smaller projects. In addition, this is a _great_ time for the community to give feedback, as you can still impact our priorities and steer the end-product into a direction that is desirable/relevant to you. Regarding how it stacks up.. A few of the bigger names out there are: - Dropzone, which only does the drag & drop part (it does this very well). - Fineuploader, a humbling effort, but they rolled their own resumable file upload implementation back in the day, no open standard protocol, so it's not compatible with anything but their own php receiver script (and ports), it also does not support acquiring content from other sources than local disk (fetching directly from dropbox/facebook, etc without hitting the local drive, ideal for big files and mobile use cases). - Transloadit, Filestack, and Uploadcare's current JS uploading plugins, but those are commercial projects, and also don't support resumable file uploading in a standardized way yet. Robust resumability is paramount for the mobile usecase as well. You don't want your upload to break when your connection drops due to basements, tunnels, or switching to a different network / cell tower for just a second. Then there's a bunch of older projects that require jQuery and/or support none of the above, that I don't want to talk bad about. The authors should be proud to have solved the world's file uploading problems in their spare time, offering all that hard work for free. I may have missed a few and I'm happy to be corrected. In the end I feel no project out there has the same level of ambition as Uppy when it comes to keeping things open source, robust, batteries included/swappable, adhering to standards, and delivering on a pixel-perfect UI. If you're interested, we also wrote a bit on why we felt Uppy was needed here: https://uppy.io/blog/2016/07/upp...
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mojo
@mojololol · CTO, Uploadcare
@kvz is backend part (fetching files from dropboxes and facebooks) open source?
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Kevin van Zonneveld
@kvz · Co-founder, Transloadit
@mojololol Yes, it's licensed under MIT
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Paul Prins
@paulprins · Founder - Fresh Vine
@kvz thanks for the feedback. The ability to fetch from third party services is pretty fantastic as well. Looking forward to seeing the project progress.
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mojo
@mojololol · CTO, Uploadcare
@kvz couldn't find it (still can't) so I had to ask :)
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Chintan Karnik
@chintankarnik · Founder, any.Reviews
@kvz Will use in near future. Good job! The only cloud service that currently provides a true remote uploads is Pcloud.com
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Jonathan Cremin
@kudoz · SRE @ Udemy
@kvz What aspects would you say make it pre-release? Is it missing planned functionality, or do you just want it to be more widely tested?
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Kevin van Zonneveld
@kvz · Co-founder, Transloadit
@kudoz we keep track of that in our CHANGELOG.md, but big themes to come are: react (native), encoding backends, more cloud integrations, reduce bundle sizes, polish. Basic uploading to tus or e.g. Apache/nginx servers is working.We reserve the right to make breaking changes <1.0. Version pinning that can however make that less of a bumby ride for our users. (On mobile now so please excuse the brevity 😄 )
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