What is the best alternative to Resumable.js?

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score 6 · Answer 1

Upload.js

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No dependencies

It's very lightweight, and doesn't depend on libraries like jQuery, React, etc. See More

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No free tier

There's a free trial, and there's a "free" API key, but it only stores files temporarily -- ok for hackathons or demos, but if you want to use this in a "real" application, you'll need to pay for an account. (It's $7/mo at the time of writing.) See More

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Integrated cloud storage

Upload.js lets you add uploads to your site in an afternoon - even if you're on a tight deadline from the client, so don't have time to create an AWS account, setup buckets and URL pre-signing etc. You can just creat an Upload.io account, plug-in the API key, and have it all working within the hour. See More

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Progress events

Has progress events that make it easy to add progress bars. They also appear to be smoothed (i.e. 1%, 2%, ... 100%, rather than 7%, 89%, 100%). See More

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Large files

Apparently uses multipart uploads under-the-hood. After checking on the network inspector this seems to be true for larger files at least. Testing it with a ~300MB video it uploads fine. See More

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score 19 · Answer 2

Uploadcare

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Open source API

Their APIs are open source on github so you can see the source and provide pull requests. See More

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Doesn't handle SVGs well

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Handles fast CDN transformations for you

Uploadcare doesn't require you to define cached transformations, and handles them quickly for you so you don't have to fiddle with configurations. See More

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Clean and thoughtful client side API.

Uploadcare provides a client side widget and API, with well worded documentation that clearly explains how each part of the widget is implemented. The client side API also implements the jQuery promises interface for cleanly defining callbacks and updating with progress. With the client side API decoupled from the upload interface, you can much more easily create customized UI's that match the look and feel of your site. See More

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score 2 · Answer 3

FileDrop.js

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Seems to be abandoned

The last commit was almost a year ago. See More

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No outside dependencies

No dependencies are required. See More

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Compatible with other libraries/frameworks

FileDrop.js is compatible with other frameworks or libraries (both frontend and backend ones) such as ASP.Net or jQuery. See More

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score 7 · Answer 4

jQuery File Upload

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Requires dependencies

jQuery File Upload requires the jQuery UI library and the jQuery iFrame Transport dependencies See More

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Chunked uploads supported

jQuery file upload splits large files into smaller chunks in order to increase upload speed and be able to resume quickly if one of the chunks fails to upload. This is because it only needs to re-upload the smaller chunk that failed. See More

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Works with any server-side platform

Is compatible with all server-side technologies (Rails, PHP, ASP.NET etc...). See More

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