Meteor File Uploads

Question

I see that this has been asked here before, but nothing since Meteor.http has been available. I\'m still grasping the concepts of Meteor and file uploads are totall

Answer 1

Take a look at filepicker.io. They handle the upload, store it into your S3, and return to you the url that you can dump into your db.

1. Wget the filepicker script into your client folder.

   wget https://api.filepicker.io/v0/filepicker.js
   

2. Insert a filepicker input tag

3. In the startup, initialize it:

   Meteor.startup( function() {
       filepicker.setKey("YOUR FILEPICKER API KEY");
       filepicker.constructWidget(document.getElementById('attachment'));
   });
   

4. Attach a event handler

   Template.templateNameHere.events({
       'change #attachment': function(evt){
           console.log(evt.files);
       }
   });
   

(I had posted on How would one handle a file upload with Meteor? Sorry. I'm new here. Is it kosher to copy the same answer twice? Anyone who knows better can feel free to edit this.)