Vuetify Multiple Images Upload example

In this tutorial, I will show you way to use Vuetify to build Multiple Images Upload example with Axios and Multipart File for making HTTP requests. You will also know how to add progress bar, show response message and display list of images’ information (with url).

More Practice:
– Vuetify data-table example with a CRUD App | v-data-table
– Vuetify Pagination (Server side) example
– Vue.js JWT Authentication with Vuex and Vue Router

Using Bootstrap: Vue Upload Multiple Images with Axios and Progress Bars

Overview

We’re gonna create a Vuetify Multiple Images upload application in that user can:

• see the upload process (percentage) of each image with progress bars
• view all uploaded images
• download link to image when clicking on the name

Here are APIs that we will use Axios to make HTTP requests:

You can find how to implement the Rest APIs Server at one of following posts:
– Node.js Express File Upload Rest API example
– Node.js Express File Upload to MongoDB example
– Node.js Express File Upload to Google Cloud Storage example
– Spring Boot Multipart File upload (to static folder) example

Technology

• Vue 2.6
• Axios 0.20.0
• Vuetify 2

Setup Vuetify multiple Images Upload Project

Open cmd at the folder you want to save Project folder, run command:
vue create vuetify-multiple-image-upload

You will see some options, choose default (babel, eslint).

After the Vue project is created successfully, we import Vuetify with command: vue add vuetify.
The Console will show:

�📦  Installing vue-cli-plugin-vuetify...

+ [email protected]
added 5 packages from 7 contributors and audited 1277 packages in 25.013s
found 0 vulnerabilities

✔  Successfully installed plugin: vue-cli-plugin-vuetify

? Choose a preset: Default (recommended)

�🚀  Invoking generator for vue-cli-plugin-vuetify...
�📦  Installing additional dependencies...

added 7 packages from 5 contributors and audited 1284 packages in 41.183s
found 0 vulnerabilities

⚓  Running completion hooks...

✔  Successfully invoked generator for plugin: vue-cli-plugin-vuetify
   The following files have been updated / added:

     src/assets/logo.svg
     src/plugins/vuetify.js
     vue.config.js
     package-lock.json
     package.json
     public/index.html
     src/App.vue
     src/components/HelloWorld.vue
     src/main.js

Open plugins/vuetify.js, you can see:

import Vue from 'vue';
import Vuetify from 'vuetify/lib';

Vue.use(Vuetify);

export default new Vuetify({
});

Then in main.js file, Vuetify object will added automatically to Vue App:

import Vue from 'vue'
import App from './App.vue'
import vuetify from './plugins/vuetify';

Vue.config.productionTip = false

new Vue({
  vuetify,
  render: h => h(App)
}).$mount('#app')

And vue.config.js:

module.exports = {
  transpileDependencies: ["vuetify"]
};

Project Structure

Let’s remove unnecessary folders and files, then create new ones like this:

Let me explain it briefly.

– plugins/vuetify.js imports Vuetify library, initializes and exports Vuetify object for main.js.
We don’t need to do anything with these 2 files because the command add Vuetify helped us.

– UploadFilesService provides methods to upload Image and retrieve Images using Axios.
– UploadImages component contains upload form for multiple images, progress bars, display of list images.
– App.vue is the container that we embed all Vue components.

– http-common.js initializes Axios with HTTP base Url and headers.
– We configure transpile Dependencies and port for our App in vue.config.js

Initialize Axios for Vue HTTP Client

Now we add Axios library with command: npm install axios.

Under src folder, we create http-common.js file like this:

import axios from "axios";

export default axios.create({
  baseURL: "http://localhost:8080",
  headers: {
    "Content-type": "application/json"
  }
});

Remember to change the baseURL, it depends on REST APIs url that your Server configures.

Create Service for File Upload

This service will use Axios to send HTTP requests.
There are 2 functions:

• upload(file): POST form data with a callback for tracking upload progress
• getFiles(): GET list of images’ information

services/UploadFilesService.js

import http from "../http-common";

class UploadFilesService {
  upload(file, onUploadProgress) {
    let formData = new FormData();

    formData.append("file", file);

    return http.post("/upload", formData, {
      headers: {
        "Content-Type": "multipart/form-data"
      },
      onUploadProgress
    });
  }

  getFiles() {
    return http.get("/files");
  }
}

export default new UploadFilesService();

– First we import Axios as http from http-common.js.

– FormData is a data structure that can be used to store key-value pairs. We use it to build an object which corresponds to an HTML form with append() method.

– We pass onUploadProgress to exposes progress events. This progress event are expensive (change detection for each event), so you should only use when you want to monitor it.

– We call the post() & get() method of Axios to send an HTTP POST & Get request to the File Upload server.

Create Vuetify Components for Multiple Images Upload

Let’s create a File Upload UI with Vuetify Progress Bar, Button and Alert. We also have Card and List Item Group for displaying uploaded images.

First we create a Vue component template and import UploadFilesService:

components/UploadImages.vue

<template>

</template>

<script>
import UploadService from "../services/UploadFilesService";

export default {
  name: "upload-images",
  data() {
    return {

    };
  },
  methods: {
  
  }
};
</script>

Then we define the some data variables inside data()

export default {
  name: "upload-images",
  data() {
    return {
      selectedFiles: undefined,
      progressInfos: [],
      message: "",

      fileInfos: [],
    };
  },
};

• fileInfos is an array of {name, url} objects. We’re gonna display its data in a Vuetify v-list and v-list-item-group.
• progressInfos contains the percentage of files’ upload progress (with related file names).

Next we define selectFile() method which helps us to get the selected Files from v-file-input element in HTML template later.

Next we create selectFiles() method which helps us to get the selected Images from <input type="file" > element later.

export default {
  name: "upload-images",
  ...
  methods: {
    selectFiles(files) {
      this.progressInfos = [];
      this.selectedFiles = files;
    },
  }
};

selectedFiles array will be used for accessing current selected Images. Every image has a corresponding progress Info (percentage, file name) and index in progressInfos array.

export default {
  name: "upload-images",
  ...
  methods: {
    ...
    uploadFiles() {
      this.message = "";

      for (let i = 0; i < this.selectedFiles.length; i++) {
        this.upload(i, this.selectedFiles[i]);
      }
    }
  }
};

We call UploadFilesService.upload() method on each file with a callback. So create following upload() method:

export default {
  name: "upload-images",
  ...
  methods: {
    ...
    upload(idx, file) {
      this.progressInfos[idx] = { percentage: 0, fileName: file.name };

      UploadService.upload(file, (event) => {
        this.progressInfos[idx].percentage = Math.round(100 * event.loaded / event.total);
      })
        .then((response) => {
          let prevMessage = this.message ? this.message + "\n" : "";
          this.message = prevMessage + response.data.message;

          return UploadService.getFiles();
        })
        .then((files) => {
          this.fileInfos = files.data;
        })
        .catch(() => {
          this.progressInfos[idx].percentage = 0;
          this.message = "Could not upload the file:" + file.name;
        });
    }
  }
};

The progress will be calculated basing on event.loaded and event.total.
If the transmission is done, we call UploadFilesService.getFiles() to get the images' information and assign the result to fileInfos state, which is an array of {name, url} objects.

We also need to do this work in mounted() method:

export default {
  name: "upload-images",
  ...
  mounted() {
    UploadService.getFiles().then((response) => {
      this.fileInfos = response.data;
    });
  }
};

Now we implement the HTML template of the Upload File UI using Vuetify. Add the following content to <template>:

<template>
  <div>
    <div v-if="progressInfos">
      <div class="mb-2"
        v-for="(progressInfo, index) in progressInfos"
        :key="index"
      >
        <span>{{progressInfo.fileName}}</span>
        <v-progress-linear
          v-model="progressInfo.percentage"
          color="light-blue"
          height="25"
          reactive
        >
          <strong>{{ progressInfo.percentage }} %</strong>
        </v-progress-linear>
      </div>
    </div>

    <v-row no-gutters justify="center" align="center">
      <v-col cols="8">
        <v-file-input
          accept="image/*"
          multiple
          show-size
          label="Select Images"
          @change="selectFiles"
        ></v-file-input>
      </v-col>

      <v-col cols="4" class="pl-2">
        <v-btn color="success" dark small @click="uploadFiles">
          Upload
          <v-icon right dark>mdi-cloud-upload</v-icon>
        </v-btn>
      </v-col>
    </v-row>

    <v-alert v-if="message" border="left" color="teal" outlined class="multi-line">
      {{ message }}
    </v-alert>

    <v-card v-if="fileInfos.length > 0" class="mx-auto">
      <v-list>
        <v-subheader>List of Images</v-subheader>
        <v-list-item-group color="primary">
            <v-list-item v-for="(file, index) in fileInfos" :key="index">
              <v-list-item-content>
                <v-list-item-title class="mb-3">
                  <a :href="file.url">{{ file.name }}</a>
                </v-list-item-title>
                <v-list-item-subtitle>
                  <img :src="file.url" :alt="file.name" height="80px">
                </v-list-item-subtitle>
              </v-list-item-content>
            </v-list-item>
        </v-list-item-group>
      </v-list>
    </v-card>
  </div>
</template>

In the code above, we use Vuetify input element <v-file-input accept="image/*" multiple />:

• accept="image/*": only image file type is accepted
• multiple: allow user to choose multiple files

We also use Vuetify Progress linear: v-progress-linear. This component will be responsive to user input with v-model. We bind the progress model of each progressInfo item (progressInfo.percentage) to display the process inside of the progress bar.

The v-btn button will call uploadFiles() method, then notification is shown with v-alert.

Add Upload Images Component to App Component

Open App.vue and embed the UploadImages Component with <upload-images> tag.

<template>
  <v-app>
    <v-container fluid style="width: 600px">
      <div class="mb-5">
        <h1>bezkoder.com</h1>
        <h2>Vuetify multiple Images upload</h2>
      </div>

      <upload-images></upload-images>
    </v-container>
  </v-app>
</template>

<script>
import UploadImages from "./components/UploadImages";

export default {
  name: "App",
  components: {
    UploadImages,
  },
};
</script>

Configure Port for Vuetify Multiple Images Upload App

Because most of HTTP Server use CORS configuration that accepts resource sharing retricted to some sites or ports. And if you use the Project in this post or this tutorial for making Rest API Server, you need to configure the port.

In src folder, create vue.config.js file with following content:

module.exports = {
  devServer: {
    port: 8081
  }
}

We've set our app running at port 8081. vue.config.js will be automatically loaded by @vue/cli-service.

Run the App

Run this Vue/Vuetify App with command: npm run serve.

Open Browser with url http://localhost:8081/ and check the result.

Further Reading

• Vuetify Components: Form Controls
• https://github.com/axios/axios
• Vue Typescript example: Build a CRUD Application
• Vue.js JWT Authentication with Vuex and Vue Router

If you want to build Vuetify CRUD App like this:

You can visit the tutorial:
Vuetify data-table example with a CRUD App | v-data-table

Conclusion

Today we're learned how to build a Vue/Vuetify application for multiple Images Upload using Axios with Vuetify Progress Bars. We also provide the ability to show list of images, upload progress percentage, and to download images from the server.

You can find how to implement the Rest APIs Server at one of following posts:
- Node.js Express File Upload Rest API example
- Node.js Express File Upload to MongoDB example
- Node.js Express File Upload to Google Cloud Storage example
- Spring Boot Multipart File upload (to static folder) example

You can try with Bootstrap version:
Vue Upload Multiple Images with Axios and Progress Bars

Source Code

The source code for this Vue Client is uploaded to Github.