When comparing jQuery File Upload vs Filestack, the Slant community recommends Filestack for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript libraries for file uploading?” Filestack is ranked 5th while jQuery File Upload is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose Filestack is:
- Easy to setup and get started - Lots of SDKs, libaries, and plug-ins - Image, document, audio and video transformations can be applied to uploaded images - Unlimited file storage - Fastly CDN partnership - Great support - Content Ingestion Network - Intelligent Ingestion - Image object recognition - OCR for documents and images
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Pros
Pro 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.
Pro Works with any server-side platform
Is compatible with all server-side technologies (Rails, PHP, ASP.NET etc...).
Pro Powerful API for file uploads
- Easy to setup and get started
- Lots of SDKs, libaries, and plug-ins
- Image, document, audio and video transformations can be applied to uploaded images
- Unlimited file storage
- Fastly CDN partnership
- Great support
- Content Ingestion Network
- Intelligent Ingestion
- Image object recognition
- OCR for documents and images
Cons
Con Requires dependencies
jQuery File Upload requires the jQuery UI library and the jQuery iFrame Transport dependencies