SMRTR ProgrammingJul 22, 2025Hacker Noon

A Simple Way to Build a Progress Bar for Your Website’s Image Uploader Using Filestack

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A progress bar enhances file uploader user experience, but creating one manually is complex, involving XMLHttpRequest objects, event listeners, and DOM manipulation. The traditional approach requires HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, but lacks error handling and backend integration. Filestack simplifies this process with a built-in progress bar in its file picker, offering a more efficient and user-friendly solution with minimal code implementation.

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